Re: Should rolpassword be toastable?

From: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Should rolpassword be toastable?
Date: 2024-10-03 23:29:46
Message-ID: CAOYmi+mVJDy+ja1Un3PSZHq2G4PYq1A-ROfR-rSoOtN-PVK4XA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 3:25 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I don't mind proceeding with the patch if there is strong support for it.
> > I wavered only because it's hard to be confident that we are choosing the
> > right limit.
>
> I'm not that fussed about it; surely 256 is more than anyone is using?
> If not, we'll get push-back and then we can have a discussion about the
> correct limit that's informed by more than guesswork.

+1.

Next up is probably SCRAM-SHA-512, which should still have smaller
entries than that -- 222 bytes, I think, with 128-bit salts and a
5-digit iteration count?

--Jacob

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