Re: [HACKERS] scram and \password

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> It would make sense to have \password obey password_encryption GUC. Then
> \password and ALTER USER would do the same thing, which would be less
> surprising. Although it's also a bit weird for a GUC to affect client-side
> behavior, so perhaps better to just document that \password will create a
> SCRAM verifier, unless you explicitly tell it to create an MD5 hash, and add
> a 'method' parameter to it.

Either of those would be fine with me, but I think we should do one of them.

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