Re: weird libpq GSSAPI comment

Stephen Frost <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:58:09 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Greetings,

* Stephen Frost ([email protected]) wrote:
> * Alvaro Herrera ([email protected]) wrote:
> > 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.)
> 
> Ok, great, attached is an actual patch which I'll push soon if there
> aren't any other comments.

Pushed.

Thanks!

Stephen

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