Re: password_encryption, default and 'plain' support

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
> wrote:
> >> In various threads on SCRAM, we've skirted around the question of
> whether
> >> we should still allow storing passwords in plaintext. I've avoided
> >> discussing that in those other threads, because it's been an orthogonal
> >> question, but it's a good question and we should discuss it.
> >>
> >> So, I propose that we remove support for password_encryption='plain' in
> >> PostgreSQL 10. If you try to do that, you'll get an error.
> >
> > Is there any usecase at all for it today?
>
> For developers running applications on top of Postgres?
>

I don't get it. How does password_encryption=plain help them?

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