Re: Future of krb5 authentication

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:57:19AM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>> libpq would still work against older server versions, right?
>>> Not once krb5 is removed. Assuming the older server version used krb5 auth.
>> OK, well thats a problem. pgAdmin supports back to 7.3...
>
> You have a similar problem there already - 8.1 removed support for Kerberos
> 4, so if your 7.3 server is configged with krb4, you loose anyway.

Let's be practical here. We're going to have support for both in libpq
for at least one version anyway. What do we gain by removing that
support in a later release? I think we should just keep it around until
we have a pressing reason to remove it, say if it gets in the way of
implementing some new feature.

In the server, I think we could remove it sooner. But even there, is
there a reason why we should?

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