On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:47 PM Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > Right, if we changed the name of the auth method then everyone who is > using the "gss" auth method would have to update their pg_hba.conf > files... That would be very ugly. Also, it wasn't implicitly rejected, > it was discussed up-thread (see the comments between Magnus and I, > specifically, quoted above- "that ship sailed *years* ago") and > explicitly rejected.
Slightly off-topic, but I am not familiar with GSSAPI and don't quite understand what the benefits of GSSAPI encryption are as compared with OpenSSL encryption. I am sure there must be some; otherwise, nobody would have bothered writing, reviewing, and committing this patch. Can somebody enlighten me? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
