Henry B. Hotz: GSSAPI authentication method for C (FE/BE) and Java
(FE).
Magnus Haglander: SSPI (GSSAPI compatible) authentication method for
C (FE) on Windows.
(That fair Magnus? Or you want to volunteer for BE support as well?)
GSSAPI isn't much more than a functional replacement for Kerberos 5,
but it's supported on lots more platforms. In particular Java and
Windows have native support (as well as Solaris 9).
If anyone is interested I currently have working-but-incomplete
patches to support SASL in C. I've decided not to finish and submit
them because the glue code to make configuration reasonable, and to
allow use of existing Postgres password databases with the password-
based mechanisms is still significant.
On Jan 22, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Or so... :)
>
> Thought I would do a poll of what is happening in the world for
> 8.3. I have:
>
> Alvaro Herrera: Autovacuum improvements (maintenance window etc..)
> Gavin Sherry: Bitmap Indexes (on disk), possible basic Window
> functions
> Jonah Harris: WITH/Recursive Queries?
> Andrei Kovalesvki: Some Win32 work with Magnus
> Magnus Hagander: VC++ support (thank goodness)
> Heikki Linnakangas: Working on Vacuum for Bitmap Indexes?
> Oleg Bartunov: Tsearch2 in core
> Neil Conway: Patch Review (including enums), pg_fcache
>
> Vertical projects:
>
> Pavel Stehule: PLpsm
> Alexey Klyukin: PLphp
> Andrei Kovalesvki: ODBCng
>
> I am sure there are more, the ones with question marks are unknowns
> but
> heard of in the ether somewhere. Any additions or confirmations?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>
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