Re: [INTERFACES] Re: [HACKERS] User authentication bug?

Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> writes:
> On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's possible that there are still bogus length limits on username
>> or password in some of the other PostgreSQL user interfaces besides
>> psql/libpq.  I will leave it to other folks to check that code.

> I think the perl-module behaves the same, but I'm not totally sure about
> it. I have a script where passing a 9 chars username to PQconnectdb()
> fails to connect to a backend, while if I truncate the username to 8
> chars it works.

Hmm.  What pgsql version are you using?  A quick glance at
src/interfaces/perl5 doesn't show any dependencies on username or
password length in it --- it's just a very simple wrapper for libpq.

            regards, tom lane