Re: [BUGS] ltree::text not immutable?

Tom Lane wrote:

> Not entirely sure what to do about this.  It seems like for the purposes
> of contrib/chkpass, it's a good thing that chkpass_in() won't reuse the
> same salt.  Weak as a 12-bit salt might be nowadays, it's still better
> than no salt.  Nonetheless, this behavior is breaking assumptions made
> in places like array_in and record_in.
> 
> For the moment I'm tempted to mark chkpass_in as stable (with a comment
> explaining that it isn't really) just so we can put in the error check
> in CREATE TYPE.  But I wonder if anyone has a better idea.

Can we have a separate function that accepts unencrypted passwords, and
change chkpass_in to only accept encrypted ones?  Similar to
to_tsquery() et al.

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