Re: Kerberos authentication, Active Directory, and PostgreSQL

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> A small wish in case we go with this: The constant should be named
>> something like PG_...; otherwise it looks like we are defining or
>> overriding an official symbol from the GSS API.
>
> I'd be inclined to just s/2000/32767/ and not bother with a symbol,
> misleadingly named or otherwise.  If the value were actually being
> used in more than one place, it'd be a different story, but to be
> so used it would likely need a completely different name.

It is used in two places in that file: pg_GSS_recvauth() and
pg_SSPI_recvauth(). (the original patch neglected SSPI)

I'll rename it to PG_MAX_AUTH_TOKEN_LENGTH, unless someone has a better
suggestion.

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