Re: PQconnectdbParams and encrypted password

Hi Tom

thanks a lot for your answer

I realized it almost immediately after I press the button send :)

thanks again

dm

> On Aug 30, 2019, at 9:50 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Dmitry Markman <dmarkman(at)mac(dot)com> writes:
>> I need some help with setting PQconnectdbParams key/value for encrypted password
>> suppose I created user with the string
>> create user foobar with encrypted password ‘md5f3c33545d22dbf811737afb8d0e85597’
>> ...
>> {"password", ??????????????},//I’d like to have here “md5f3c33545d22dbf811737afb8d0e85597”, but it doesn’t work
>
> Pretty much the entire *point* of an encrypted password is that the
> md5 hash is not sufficient to log in with. You need the original
> string.
>
> regards, tom lane