Re: pg_authid.rolpassword format (was Re: [HACKERS] Passwordidentifiers, protocol aging and SCRAM protocol)

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Michael Paquier
>> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> From the discussions of last year on -hackers, it was decided to *not*
>>> have an additional column per complains from a couple of hackers
>>> (Robert you were in this set at this point), ...
>>
>> Hmm, I don't recall taking that position, but then there are a lot of
>> things that I ought to recall and don't.  (Ask my wife!)
>
> [... digging objects of the past ...]
> From the past thread:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoY790rphHBogXMbTG6MzSeNdoxdBXebEkAet9ZpZ8gvtw@mail.gmail.com
> The complain is directed directly to multiple verifiers per users
> though, not to have the type in a separate column.

Yes, I rather like the separate column.  But since Heikki is doing the
work (or if he is) I'm not going to gripe too much.

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