Re: Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted passwords

Josh Berkus wrote:
> > I've already offered elsewhere to work on
> > writing a random-salt patch for PostgreSQL targeted at 8.1 and this
> > encourages me further. I understand that I'd need to be sure it was
> > backwards compatible to some extent (do both older client <-> newer
> > server and newer client <-> older server need to work? I seem to recall
> > only older client <-> newer server had to work, but perhaps I'm not
> > remembering right).
>
> Actually, I think older client <-> newer server is the least critical. We'd
> be incrementing libpq for this. Right, Bruce?

Yes, in fact we might need to change the wire protocol version, not just
the library major number.

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