Re: initdb recommendations

Greetings,

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > For now I have left in the password based method to be scram-sha-256 as
> > I am optimistic about the support across client drivers[1] (and FWIW I
> > have an implementation for crystal-pg ~60% done).
>
> > However, this probably means we would need to set the default password
> > encryption guc to "scram-sha-256" which we're not ready to do yet, so it
> > may be moot to leave it in.
>
> > So, thinking out loud about that, we should probably use "md5" and once
> > we decide to make the encryption method "scram-sha-256" by default, then
> > we update the recommendation?
>
> Meh. If we're going to break things, let's break them. Set it to
> scram by default and let people who need to cope with old clients
> change the default. I'm tired of explaining that MD5 isn't actually
> insecure in our usage ...

+many.

Thanks,

Stephen