Re: password_encryption default

On 2020-05-27 08:00, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:25:25AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Yeah, I was too enthusiastic about removing that.  Here is a better patch.
> 
> +        as an MD5 hash.  (<literal>on</literal> is also accepted, as an alias
> +        for <literal>md5</literal>.)  The default is
> +        <literal>scram-sha-256</literal>.
> Shouldn't password_encryption = on/true/1/yes be an equivalent of
> scram-sha-256 as the default gets changed?

I think these are mostly legacy options anyway, so if we wanted to make 
a change, we should remove them.

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