Re: Add "password_protocol" connection parameter to libpq

On 2019-08-12 18:02, Jeff Davis wrote:
> https://postgr.es/m/daf0017a1a5c2caabf88a4e00f66b4fcbdfeccad.camel%40j-davis.com
> 
> The weakness of proposal #1 is that it's not very "future-proof" and we
> would likely need to change something about it later when we support
> new methods. That wouldn't break clients, but it would be annoying to
> need to support some old syntax and some new syntax for the connection
> parameters.
> 
> Proposal #3 does not have this weakness. When we add sha-512, we could
> also add a parameter to specify that the client requires a certain hash
> algorithm for SCRAM.
> 
> Do you favor that existing proposal #3, or are you proposing a fourth
> option?

In this context, I would prefer #2, but I would expand that to cover all
authentication methods, not only password methods.

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