Re: PostGres Doubt

I'm using md5 in pg_hba.conf. That is the method, no?

I'm writing a milter application which instantiates a private resource
for each thread upon thread startup. I have priv->conn which I
establish as priv->conn=PQconnectdb(connstr), connstr is const char
*connstr="host=10.0.0.5 dbname=bmilter user=username password=password";

It segfaults depending on it's mood but it tends to happen about 50-70%
of the time. I switched to PQsetdbLogin() which has worked perfectly.
I don't really want to use that however, I would much prefer using my
connstr.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,
David

Tom Lane wrote:

>David Ford <david+cert(at)blue-labs(dot)org> writes:
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>>So reentrancy in libpq basically is put on hold until 7.3.
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>Only if you insist on using "crypt", which is deprecated anyway.
>md5 is the preferred encryption method.
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>My feeling about the proposed patch was that crypt is now a legacy auth
>method, and it's not clear that we should create platform/library
>dependencies just to support making multiple connections simultaneously
>under crypt auth. (Note that *using* connections concurrently is not
>at issue, only whether you can execute the authentication phase of
>startup concurrently.)
>
> regards, tom lane
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