Re: pg_authid.rolpassword format (was Re: Password identifiers, protocol aging and SCRAM protocol)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Julian Markwort <julian(dot)markwort(at)uni-muenster(dot)de>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Valery Popov <v(dot)popov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: pg_authid.rolpassword format (was Re: Password identifiers, protocol aging and SCRAM protocol)
Date: 2016-12-20 03:47:20
Message-ID: CA+TgmoY-ZUS=DZX82Tk1nskPec11VGvUsJfjVKjPeXxA47kh8A@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Michael Paquier
>> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> From the discussions of last year on -hackers, it was decided to *not*
>>> have an additional column per complains from a couple of hackers
>>> (Robert you were in this set at this point), ...
>>
>> Hmm, I don't recall taking that position, but then there are a lot of
>> things that I ought to recall and don't. (Ask my wife!)
>
> [... digging objects of the past ...]
> From the past thread:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoY790rphHBogXMbTG6MzSeNdoxdBXebEkAet9ZpZ8gvtw@mail.gmail.com
> The complain is directed directly to multiple verifiers per users
> though, not to have the type in a separate column.

Yes, I rather like the separate column. But since Heikki is doing the
work (or if he is) I'm not going to gripe too much.

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Robert Haas
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