On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > Since Simon stirred up a hornets nest suggesting deprecation of a > number of features, I figured I'd take it one step further and suggest > removal of some previously deprecated features :) > > In particular, we made a couple of changes over sveral releases back > in the authentication config, that we should perhaps consider > finishing by removing the old stuff now? > > 1. krb5 authentication. We've had gssapi since 8.3 (which means in all > supported versions). krb5 has been deprecated, also since 8.3. Time to > remove it?
That seems like a sufficiently long deprecation window, but is gssapi a full substitute for krb5? I don't really have a strong opinion on this, not being a user myself. > 2. ident-over-unix-sockets was renamed to "peer" in 9.1, with the old > syntax deprecated but still mapping to the new one. Has it been there > long enough that we should start throwing an error for ident on unix? Definitely not. I see no reason to change that, well, really ever. But certainly not after just two releases. It seems to me like a useful convenience that does no real harm. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
