envvar PGREALM seems no longer used

Started by Nonamealmost 9 years ago2 messagesdocs
Jump to latest
#1Noname
smatsudajp@gmail.com

The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/libpq-envars.html
Description:

Environment variable PGREALM seems to have been removed 12 years ago, but it
still exists in the documentation.

https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/a159ad30489acb7aeb35d95de805f81c64d07966

--
Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs

#2Magnus Hagander
magnus@hagander.net
In reply to: Noname (#1)
Re: envvar PGREALM seems no longer used

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:31 PM, <smatsudajp@gmail.com> wrote:

The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/libpq-envars.html
Description:

Environment variable PGREALM seems to have been removed 12 years ago, but
it
still exists in the documentation.

https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/a159ad30489acb7aeb35d95de805f8
1c64d07966

Interesting. That one has clearly not been around for a long time yeah.
Interestingly enough it was updated to refer to GSSAPI, but it seems it was
never actually supported on the GSSAPI authentication.

Good spot! Fix applied and backpatched.

--
Magnus Hagander
Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/&gt;
Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/&gt;