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: 2016-12-17 18:59:41
Message-ID: CA+TgmoadYJ2oN=Ur9qYynuGpkm9yYQHt95uCHFq39ah+j9pf6A@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>> * Peter Eisentraut (peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
>>> On 12/15/16 8:40 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>> > I don't follow why we can't change the syntax for CREATE USER to allow
>>> > specifying the verifier type independently.
>>>
>>> That's what the last patch set I looked at actually does.
>>
>> Well, same here, but it was quite a while ago and things have progressed
>> since then wrt SCRAM, as I understand it...
>
> 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!)

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