[Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#710275: postgresql-9.1: Needs restart on libc upgrade

[Christoph Berg]

Control: reassign -1 postgresql-9.3
Control: severity -1 normal

Re: Matthew Gabeler-Lee 2013-05-29 <20130529141948.11588.33904.reportbug at cheetah.fastcat.org>
> Package: postgresql-9.1
> Version: 9.1.9-1
> Severity: important
> 
> When upgrading libc6, it appears that postgresql is one of the services that
> needs to be restarted for authentication to work properly.  After updating
> libc6 from 2.13 to 2.17 (testing), I was unable to authenticate to my
> databases until I restarted postgresql.  After a restart, all was fine.

Hi Matthew,

a late followup here: which kind of authentication do you have
configured there? I'd assume the problem only affects "pam".

(I'm downgrading the bug to normal because "pam" is not the default
configuration.)

Christoph
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