Re: libpq 9.4 requires /etc/passwd?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: libpq 9.4 requires /etc/passwd?
Date: 2015-01-11 17:54:32
Message-ID: 13609.1420998872@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de> writes:
> Re: Tom Lane 2015-01-10 <22432(dot)1420915326(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
>> So what I propose we do with this is patch HEAD and 9.4 only.
>> We need to do *something* in 9.4 to address Christoph's complaint, and
>> that branch is new enough that we can probably get away with changing
>> officially-unsupported APIs. The lack of other field complaints makes
>> me okay with not trying to fix these issues further back.

> The problem isn't present in 9.3 and earlier (at least with
> postfix-pgsql), so there's no need to go back further.

I've committed a fix for this in HEAD and 9.4.

regards, tom lane

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