Re: Odd postgres12 upgrade is changing or munging a password?

On 5/8/20 12:11 PM, Tory M Blue wrote:
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> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:41 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at
> <mailto:laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 11:55 -0700, Tory M Blue wrote:
> > Going from 9.5 to 12 and 2 times now, I've had a password either
> go missing or munged.
> > I've had to add an alter statement at the end of the upgrade.
> >
> > The DB is functioning fine, shut it down, do the upgrade and the
> password is munged.
> > Seems like an odd occurrence, we have not noted any other weird
> issues.
> >
> > Anyone else see or hear of this?
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> The only explanation I can come up with is that
> "password_encryption" is set to
> "scram-sha-256" on the v12 server.
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> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
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> If that was the case, wouldn't it change the others as well? Why a
> single password.

I would first confirm what password_encryption in postgresql.conf is set
to. By default it is set to 'md5'.

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> Super strange indeed :)
>
> Tory

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