Re: Remove last traces of SCM credential auth from libpq?

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:49:45AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Also, in pg_fe_sendauth, couldn't you just let the default: case
>> handle it instead of adding a bespoke error message?  We're not
>> really expecting that anyone is ever going to hit this, so I'm
>> not convinced it's worth the translation burden.

> Yes, I was wondering if that's worth keeping or not, so I chose
> consistency with AUTH_REQ_KRB4 and AUTH_REQ_KRB5.

Maybe flush those special messages too?  I'm not sure how long
they've been obsolete, though.

> Would it be better to hold on this patch for 17~?

Nah, I see no reason to wait.  We already dropped the higher-level
client support (psql/pg_dump) for these server versions in v15.

            regards, tom lane