Re: PG 14 release notes, first draft

On 2021-May-16, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> OK, what I was trying to say was that if you dump/restore, and the old
> password was md5, the newly-restored password will be md5, but it was
> very unclear.  I changed it to this:
> 
>     <listitem>
>     <!--
>     Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
>     2020-06-10 [c7eab0e97] Change default of password_encryption to scram-sha-256
>     Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
>     2020-06-10 [c7eab0e97] Change default of password_encryption to scram-sha-256
>     -->
>     
>     <para>
>     Change the default of the password_encryption server parameter to
>     scram-sha-256 (Peter Eisentraut)
>     </para>
>     
>     <para>
>     Previously it was md5.    All new passwords will be stored as SHA256
>     unless this server variable is changed or the password is specified
>     in md5 format.    Also, the legacy (and undocumented) boolean-like
>     values which were previously synonyms for <literal>md5</literal>
>     are no longer accepted.
>     </para>
>     </listitem>

Ah, yeah, now I understand.  WFM.

Thanks

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