Greetings, * Tom Lane (tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfrost@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > My memory might be faulty, but I've got some specific recollection of > > people complaining about this before and the community response being > > "who would ever need such very long things?!" > > Yeah, so I guessed wrong ;-). Never too late to absorb new facts though. Sure. :) > That thread does point out that passwordFromFile() is far from the > only place that assumes passwords aren't going to be longer than > what would be sane to enter manually. I wonder whether we need to > worry about the other bottlenecks. Well, as I said in that thread two years ago, seems like we should make it work everywhere and be consistent between frontend and backend regarding what's supported. Perhaps even clearly document what the limit is too... Thanks, Stephen
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