Re: Krb5 & multiple DB connections

Then the patch safest for just 8.2 then.

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Stephen Frost wrote:
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> * Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) wrote:
> > Is this something we need for 8.1.X?
> 
> Personally, I think it's a bug which should be fixed.  I don't think
> everyone agrees on that though and there are some parts which could be a
> bit controversial.  The main issue is that now the entire Kerberos
> context is recreated on each connection.  Now, it's really not all that
> expensive generally but I can understand the preference to just reopen
> the ccache when it changes.  I tried to do that by just free'ing and
> redo'ing the parts having to do w/ the ccache but it didn't quite pan
> out right and I havn't figured out what I did wrong yet.  The other
> approach would be to actually track the cache name and check if it
> changes.  That's more difficult to do correctly across platforms though
> I think.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>         Stephen
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