Re: CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD ('value' USING 'method')

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD ('value' USING 'method')
Date: 2017-03-09 14:34:01
Message-ID: CA+Tgmob=R7sPk2bGPGoVcYF_pu1UXzkvSPYT4wPsT591u9+g1g@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Yes, I agree with that for MD5, and after looking around I can see
> (like here http://prosody.im/doc/plain_or_hashed) as well that
> SCRAM-hashed is used. Now, there are as well references to the salt,
> like in protocol.sgml:
> "The salt to use when encrypting the password."
> Joe, do you think that in this case using the term "hashing" would be
> more appropriate? I would think so as we use it to hash the password.

I'm not Joe, but I think that would be more appropriate.

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Robert Haas
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