Re: removal of md5 from example code

On 1/17/18 11:14, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The documentation at
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/citext.html shows an example
> using md5 for password hashes. This is generally a bad practice and not
> relevant to the feature documented. 
> 
> I recommend removing the password column from this example or replacing the
> md5 hash with something more secure (a secure hash algorithm with a salt).

We don't have any other hash functions built in and exposed at the SQL
level.  (Maybe that is a problem.)  Do you have any other ideas how to
rewrite that example?

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