On tis, 2011-05-31 at 11:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > However, FreeBSD does have, and Debian/kFreeBSD does expose, > getsockopt(LOCAL_PEERCRED), which turns out to be functionally > equivalent to SO_PEERCRED: in particular, you can just call it and get > the answer without having to fool with getting the far end to send a > message. This is not only a whole lot cleaner than what we have, but > also could be used to implement libpq's requirepeer option, which is > currently unsupported on such platforms. > > So what I'm now thinking is we should rip out the control-message > implementation altogether, and instead use LOCAL_PEERCRED. This is > probably not something to back-patch, but it would make things a lot > cleaner going forward.
Oh yes, no point in having complicated code that doesn't get exercised. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
