Re: Re: Debian's PostgreSQL packages

Oliver Elphick writes:

> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
>   >> and it was never submitted to us a a patch.
>   >
>   >According to the README it was. Oliver, could you comment on this please?
>
> It was, a couple of months back.  Peter made some criticism of its use of
> autoconf, which I have changed.  I have not resubmitted the patch because
> the core team seemed to think it was not sufficiently portable.  If people
> want to include it in the main release, I will resubmit a revised patch.

The whole authentication process has been rewritten in the meantime, so
you might have some work to do.  I think the patch was okay in principle.
It's not any less "portable" than ident when you don't have an ident
server running.

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