TODO list for PostgreSQL
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-Last updated: Tue Aug 12 18:04:15 EDT 2003
+Last updated: Sat Aug 16 16:51:46 EDT 2003
* Acquire lock on a relation before building a relcache entry for it
* Research interaction of setitimer() and sleep() used by statement_timeout
* Add checks for fclose() failure
-* Change CVS $Id: TODO,v 1.1115 2003/08/13 03:12:04 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1115 2003/08/13 03:12:04 momjian Exp $
+* Change CVS $Id: TODO,v 1.1116 2003/08/16 23:33:49 momjian Exp $ to $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/TODO,v 1.1116 2003/08/16 23:33:49 momjian Exp $
* Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened
* Rename /scripts directory because they are all C programs now
* Allow the regression tests to start postmaster with -i so the tests
Kerberos is an industry-standard secure
- authentication system suitable for distributed computing over a
- public network. A description of the
-
Kerberos system is far beyond the scope
- of this document; in all generality it can be quite complex (yet
- powerful). The
+ authentication system suitable for distributed computing over a public
+ network. A description of the
Kerberos system
+ is far beyond the scope of this document; in all generality it can be
+ quite complex (yet powerful). The
url="http://www.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html">Kerberos
-
FAQ> or
- url="ftp://athena-dist.mit.edu">MIT Project Athena can be
- a good starting point for exploration. Several sources for
-
Kerberos> distributions exist.
+ Project Athena can be a good starting point for exploration.
+ Several sources for
Kerberos> distributions exist.
+
+
+ While
PostgreSQL> supports both Kerberos 4 and
+ Kerberos 5, only Kerberos 5 is recommended. Kerberos 4 is
+ considered insecure and no longer recommended for general
+ use.