Re: password_encryption default

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: password_encryption default
Date: 2020-05-25 09:45:25
Message-ID: bb859650-4117-b002-46b8-57b35881a459@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-05-22 23:23, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> Yeah. But there's still something to Jonathan's argument, because 9.6
>> will go EOL in November 2021, which is pretty close to when v14 will
>> reach public release (assuming we can hold to the typical schedule).
>> If we do it in v13, there'll be a full year where still-supported
>> versions of PG can't do SCRAM, implying that clients would likely
>> fail to connect to an up-to-date server.
>
> ^ that's what I meant.

Here is a proposed patch for PG14 then.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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