Re: pgsql: Revert "initdb: Change authentication defaults"

On 3/5/20 1:08 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 3:36 PM Andrew Dunstan
> <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/2/20 2:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>>>> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 10:41 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>>>> Did the buildfarm adjustments get made? (I'm assuming Andrew knows)
>>>> It's in Release 11 of the client and is mentioned in the release
>>>> notes. The release is dated last September. Making this change would
>>>> force a flag day update to that version for the buildfarm client,
>>> Hm, so scraping the buildfarm logs shows that we currently have this many
>>> animals reporting (on HEAD) for each client script_version:
>>>
>>> 42 'REL_11'
>>> 64 'REL_10'
>>> 2 'REL_9'
>>> 7 'REL_8'
>>> 1 'REL_7'
>>> 1 'REL_4.15'
>>>
>>> Looks like requiring REL_11 would still be a pretty large ask.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Possibly, although there are a few individuals who account for a
>> significant number of the lagging instances. I'll send out some emails
>> and see if we can improve the situation.
> It certainly seems worth a try at a push at least.
>
> It's kind of sad if our testing framework prevents us from shipping
> with less insecure defaults.
>

We're down to 13 animals behind release 11. Special thanks to Andres
Freund and Mark Wong for updating their large collections of animals.

I expect we'll be down to a single digit quite soon.

cheers

andrew

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