Re: Rejecting weak passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Rejecting weak passwords
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In response to Re: Rejecting weak passwords  (Tom Lane <[email protected]>)
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Re: Rejecting weak passwords
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On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 17:24, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dave Page <[email protected]> writes:
>> How will people know how to use it, or that it's even there without at
>> least a note in the docs somewhere?
>
> We don't normally document function hooks anywhere but the source code.
> That's one of the things that makes them low overhead ;-)
>
> I agree with the subsequent comments suggesting a sample module that
> actually does something useful --- although if it's going to link to
> external code like cracklib, it probably is going to have to be on
> pgfoundry not in contrib.

Why is that? we have plenty of other things in contrib that rely on
external code, for example the uuid, xml or ssl stuff.


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