Re: Allow change of kerberos service name without recompilation

Even though I am unsure about the feature addition, I am keeping this
for 8.1 in case someone else finds it useful.

This has been saved for the 8.1 release:
http:/momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches2

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Daniel Ahlin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> This is a two part patch against 7.4.5 implementing the option of
> configuring what is now set using the #defined constant PG_KRB_SRVNAM
> (the name of the service part of the kerberos principal the server
> uses).
> 
> On the backend it can be configured by the (new) string option
> krb_srvnam in postgresql.conf.
> 
> On the client it can be configured by setting the environment variable
> PGKRBSRVNAM.
> 
> The default setting (for both) is the value given by PG_KRB_SRVNAM
> mentioned above.
> 

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> 
> The use of this is mainly if several different users want to run their
> own instance of postgresql on the same machine.
> 
> Regards
> Daniel Ahlin

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