From: Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk>

scrappy · scrappy · commit 7a335784363b · 1998-01-31T21:27:28.000Z
I haven't had final confirmation from Peter yet, but the attached patch
needs to be applied for the Beta otherwise password and crypt
authentication just won't work.

It puts back the loop in libpq and also fixes a couple of problems with
maintaining compatability with pre-6.3 drivers.
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c,v 1.61 1998/01/29 03:24:30 scrappy Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c,v 1.62 1998/01/31 21:27:28 scrappy Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ connectDB(PGconn *conn)
 	 * authentication request.
 	 */
 
+	do
 	{
 		int beresp;
 
@@ -644,6 +645,7 @@ connectDB(PGconn *conn)
 					conn->errorMessage) != STATUS_OK)
 			goto connect_errReturn;
 	}
+	while (areq != AUTH_REQ_OK);
 
 	/* free the password so it's not hanging out in memory forever */
 	if (conn->pgpass != NULL)

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@`
`7`	`7`	`*`
`8`	`8`	`*`
`9`	`9`	`* IDENTIFICATION`
`10`		`- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c,v 1.61 1998/01/29 03:24:30 scrappy Exp $`
	`10`	`+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c,v 1.62 1998/01/31 21:27:28 scrappy Exp $`
`11`	`11`	`*`
`12`	`12`	`*-------------------------------------------------------------------------`
`13`	`13`	`*/`
`@@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ connectDB(PGconn *conn)`
`584`	`584`	`* authentication request.`
`585`	`585`	`*/`
`586`	`586`
	`587`	`+ do`
`587`	`588`	`{`
`588`	`589`	`int beresp;`
`589`	`590`
`@@ -644,6 +645,7 @@ connectDB(PGconn *conn)`
`644`	`645`	`conn->errorMessage) != STATUS_OK)`
`645`	`646`	`goto connect_errReturn;`
`646`	`647`	`}`
	`648`	`+ while (areq != AUTH_REQ_OK);`
`647`	`649`
`648`	`650`	`/* free the password so it's not hanging out in memory forever */`
`649`	`651`	`if (conn->pgpass != NULL)`