Re: SCRAM in the PG 10 release notes

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SCRAM in the PG 10 release notes
Date: 2017-09-20 13:42:08
Message-ID: 210505c4-f32c-3cae-f5ac-17e0d1aab5c2@2ndquadrant.com
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On 9/19/17 21:44, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> The patch that Heikki posted seemed reasonable to me as a starting
>> point, but there probably needs to be more "how" information somewhere.
>
> I agree with that.
>
> + <para>
> + Installations using MD5 authentication are encouraged to switch to
> + SCRAM-SHA-256, unless using older client programs or drivers that don't
> + support it yet.
> + </para>
> I think that the addition of a link to
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/List_of_drivers would be appropriate.

I don't have any expectation that that list will be kept up to date.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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