Re: change password_encryption default to scram-sha-256?

On 2019-Apr-08, Dave Cramer wrote:

> > IIUC the vast majority of clients already support SCRAM auth.  So the
> > vast majority of PG users can take advantage of the additional security.
> > I think the only massive-adoption exception is JDBC, and apparently they
> > already have working patches for SCRAM.
> 
> We have more than patches this is already in the driver.
> 
> What do you mean by "massive-adoption exception"

I meant an exception to the common situation that SCRAM-SHA-256 is
supported and shipped in stable releases of each driver.  The wiki here
still says it's unsupported on JDBC:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/List_of_drivers
For once I'm happy to learn that the wiki is outdated :-)

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