Re: Can we stop defaulting to 'ident'?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-pkg-yum <pgsql-pkg-yum(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can we stop defaulting to 'ident'?
Date: 2020-05-20 22:36:30
Message-ID: 074a1634-450f-1e2f-53aa-178de3ac1076@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-05-20 17:33, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> But this leads to other questions, like, what should pg_upgrade do?
> Same as it always has- make the user deal with anything they need to
> regarding postgresql.conf? Why would anything change with pg_upgrade?

Well, one might expect that the user at least gets some kind of
notification that something is changing. What happens when you end up
with a mix of MD5 and SCRAM passwords in pg_authid? Are users going to
be notified about this somehow? Has this been thought through to the
end? Have all combinations been tested?

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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