Re: Re: Debian's PostgreSQL packages

Bruce Momjian 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.
>
> I think our current idea is to have people run local ident servers to
> handle this.  We don't have any OS-specific stuff in pg_hba.conf and I
> am not sure if we want to add that complexity.  What do others think?

This is not any less "specific" than SSL or Kerberos.  Note that opening a
TCP/IP socket already opens a theoretical hole to the world.  Unix domain
is much safer.

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