Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, samay sharma <smilingsamay(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks
Date: 2022-03-03 17:23:25
Message-ID: YiD5jW/fUdt05iVF@momjian.us
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On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 10:45:42AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 02.03.22 16:45, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> > By that argument, we should have kept "password" (plain) as an
> > authentication method.
>
> For comparison, the time between adding md5 and removing password was 16
> years. It has been 5 years since scram was added.

Uh, when did we remove "password". I still see it mentioned in
pg_hba.conf. Am I missing something?

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