Re: [HACKERS] Changing references of password encryption to hashing

On 03/16/2017 06:19 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:48 AM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> So I'm in favour of fixing the docs but I'm not keen on changing the
>> SQL syntax in a way that just kind of papers over part of the
>> problems.
>
> I agree.  I think that trying to design new SQL syntax at this point
> is unlikely to be a good idea - we're just about out of time here, and
> some people who might care about this are busy on other things, and
> the deadline for patches that do new things has long since passed.
> But I like the idea of trying to improve the documentation.


Agreed. I think the documentation fixes definitely should be done, but
understand that the grammar is a longer term issue with backward
compatibility implications. Acknowledging the problem is the first step ;-)

Joe

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