Re: Remove one use of IDENT_USERNAME_MAX

On 2019-10-29 15:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 2019-10-28 14:45, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>>> In think one of the reasons for the coding is the fact that *pw is
>>>> described to be placed in the static area, which can be overwritten by
>>>> succeeding calls to getpw*() functions.
>
>>> Good point ... so maybe pstrdup instead of using a fixed-size buffer?
>
>> Maybe. Or we just decide that check_usermap() is not allowed to call
>> getpw*(). It's just a string-matching routine, so it doesn't have any
>> such business anyway.
>
> I'm okay with that as long as you add a comment describing this
> assumption.

Committed with a pstrdup(). That seemed more consistent with other code
in that file.

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