Re: Logging of PAM Authentication Failure

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <kyota(dot)horiguchi(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Logging of PAM Authentication Failure
Date: 2013-05-17 00:16:57
Message-ID: CA+TgmobHaQUB0booOOfBzdtjSOsVFqp45TGA47mb5HOnH4uEYw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> I unfortunately have to say I don't really see the point of this. The
> cost of the additional connection attempt is rather low and we have to
> deal with the superflous attempts anyway since there will be old libpqs
> around for years. Why is this worth the effort?

I have always considered this a wart, and I think we've had customers
complain about these kinds of things, too. So +1 from me for fixing
it. If not everyone updates their client to take advantage of the new
APIs, so be it. If psql and pgAdmin do, it'll solve 90% of the
problem.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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