On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 19:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So reentrancy in libpq basically is put on hold until 7.3.
>
> Only if you insist on using "crypt", which is deprecated anyway.
> md5 is the preferred encryption method.
>
> 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.)
can't this be solved by simple locking ?
I know that postgres team can do locking properly ;)
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