Re: scram and \password

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: scram and \password
Date: 2017-03-17 13:31:30
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZ0MZCL8A90+9rvLjrgtnq1ZJSquQ+-6EVf5mhT6e4m4w@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> It would make sense to have \password obey password_encryption GUC. Then
> \password and ALTER USER would do the same thing, which would be less
> surprising. Although it's also a bit weird for a GUC to affect client-side
> behavior, so perhaps better to just document that \password will create a
> SCRAM verifier, unless you explicitly tell it to create an MD5 hash, and add
> a 'method' parameter to it.

Either of those would be fine with me, but I think we should do one of them.

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Robert Haas
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