Re: Password Encryption and Connection Issues

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alpaslan AKDAĞ <alpaslanakdag(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Password Encryption and Connection Issues
Date: 2025-07-09 14:06:48
Message-ID: CAKFQuwbtK4Pc4PZPOYe7spXZsjou7Q-md4n5mVUJv0HzKcd9KQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM Alpaslan AKDAĞ <alpaslanakdag(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

>
> 1. In such a case, what would be the recommended approach or best
> practice to follow during upgrades in order to avoid this kind of issue?
>
> This is all described quite clearly in the documentation, including the
upgrade procedure in the final paragraph.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-password.html

Given that pg_hba.conf still uses md5 I'm a bit confused regarding the
claim of some people being unable to authenticate; but you've provided
insufficient data to diagnose. In any case, hopefully you can just change
all passwords to use scram and move on.

David J.

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