Re: CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD ('value' USING 'method')

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD ('value' USING 'method')
Date: 2017-03-17 01:10:59
Message-ID: CAB7nPqS+JOB8HjK9iFQ868KszosFjFtiNYO_X2h5EqR5ZpQfqQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 2:30 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 4:59 AM, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> wrote:
>> > On 03/07/2017 08:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> >> Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> >>> here is a separate thread dedicated to the following extension for
>> >>> CREATE/ALTER ROLE: PASSWORD ('value' USING 'method').
>> >>
>> >> The parentheses seem weird ... do we really need those?
>> >
>> > +1
>>
>> Seeing 3 opinions in favor of that, let's do so then. I have updated
>> the patch to not use parenthesis.
>
> The regression tests only exercise the CREATE ROLE...USING version, not the
> ALTER ROLE...USING version.

Done.

> + and <literal>plain</> for an non-hashed password. If the password
> + string is already in MD5-hashed or SCRAM-hashed, then it is
> + stored hashed as-is.
>
> In the last line, I think "stored as-is" sounds better.

Okay.

> Other than that, it looks good to me.

Thanks for the review. Attached is an updated patch.
--
Michael

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