Re: Please test peer (socket ident) auth on *BSD

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Please test peer (socket ident) auth on *BSD
Date: 2011-06-02 16:44:02
Message-ID: 3834.1307033042@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>> Then maybe we need to use "#ifndef WIN32" in those places. That's what we do
>> for similar cases.

> No, that would be a bad idea - uglifies code for no good reason.

> The function is referenced undef IS_AF_UNIX() check, so it would
> not be run anyway. Even if it would run somehow, there is only
> 2 lines to return ENOSYS.

Yeah, but not compiling thirty lines in fe-connect.c is worthwhile.

The auth_peer code in the backend is #ifdef HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS, and
I see no reason why this chunk in libpq shouldn't be as well.

regards, tom lane

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