Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

On 2021-May-16, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> OK, what I was trying to say was that if you dump/restore, and the old
> password was md5, the newly-restored password will be md5, but it was
> very unclear. I changed it to this:
>
> <listitem>
> <!--
> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
> 2020-06-10 [c7eab0e97] Change default of password_encryption to scram-sha-256
> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
> 2020-06-10 [c7eab0e97] Change default of password_encryption to scram-sha-256
> -->
>
> <para>
> Change the default of the password_encryption server parameter to
> scram-sha-256 (Peter Eisentraut)
> </para>
>
> <para>
> Previously it was md5. All new passwords will be stored as SHA256
> unless this server variable is changed or the password is specified
> in md5 format. Also, the legacy (and undocumented) boolean-like
> values which were previously synonyms for <literal>md5</literal>
> are no longer accepted.
> </para>
> </listitem>

Ah, yeah, now I understand. WFM.

Thanks

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