Re: weird libpq GSSAPI comment

Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 2020-Jan-06, Stephen Frost wrote:

> > I wonder if part of the confusion might be due to the synonyms we're
> > using here for "in use".  Things seem to be "got running", "set up",
> > "operating", "negotiated", ... - maybe that's part of the barrier to
> > understanding?
> 
> How about something like this?
> 
>  * If GSSAPI Encryption is enabled, then call pg_GSS_have_cred_cache()
>  * which will return true if we can acquire credentials (and give us a
>  * handle to use in conn->gcred), and then send a packet to the server
>  * asking for GSSAPI Encryption (and skip past SSL negotiation and
>  * regular startup below).

WFM.  (I'm not sure why you uppercase Encryption, though.)

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