Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Hm. It does seem like there's little point in giving pg_authid a TOAST
> table, as rolpassword is the only varlena column, and it obviously has
> problems. But wouldn't removing it just trade one unhelpful internal error
> when trying to log in for another when trying to add a really long password
> hash (which hopefully nobody is really trying to do in practice)? I wonder
> if we could make this a little more user-friendly.
We could put an arbitrary limit (say, half of BLCKSZ) on the length of
passwords.
regards, tom lane