| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Changing references of password encryption to hashing |
| Date: | 2017-03-16 14:27:11 |
| Message-ID: | 87d6d9ec-56bf-8584-8bc9-d37d30d9cdfb@joeconway.com |
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On 03/16/2017 06:19 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:48 AM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> So I'm in favour of fixing the docs but I'm not keen on changing the
>> SQL syntax in a way that just kind of papers over part of the
>> problems.
>
> I agree. I think that trying to design new SQL syntax at this point
> is unlikely to be a good idea - we're just about out of time here, and
> some people who might care about this are busy on other things, and
> the deadline for patches that do new things has long since passed.
> But I like the idea of trying to improve the documentation.
Agreed. I think the documentation fixes definitely should be done, but
understand that the grammar is a longer term issue with backward
compatibility implications. Acknowledging the problem is the first step ;-)
Joe
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