Re: password_encryption default

On 2020-05-27 15:25, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> $ initdb -D data --auth-local=scram-sha-256 --auth-host=md5
> 
> Got an error message:
> 
> "initdb: error: must specify a password for the superuser to enable md5
> authentication"
> 
> For the last two, that behavior is to be expected (after all, you've set
> the two login vectors to require passwords), but the error message seems
> odd now. Perhaps we tweak it to be:
> 
> 
> "initdb: error: must specify a password for the superuser when requiring
> passwords for both local and host authentication."

That message is a bit long.  Maybe just

must specify a password for the superuser to enable password authentication

without reference to the specific method.  I think the idea is clear there.

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