Re: pgsql: Revert "initdb: Change authentication defaults"

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 3:36 PM Andrew Dunstan
<andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
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> On 3/2/20 2:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> >> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 10:41 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >>> Did the buildfarm adjustments get made?  (I'm assuming Andrew knows)
> >> It's in Release 11 of the client and is mentioned in the release
> >> notes. The release is dated last September. Making this change would
> >> force a flag day update to that version for the buildfarm client,
> > Hm, so scraping the buildfarm logs shows that we currently have this many
> > animals reporting (on HEAD) for each client script_version:
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> >      42 'REL_11'
> >      64 'REL_10'
> >       2 'REL_9'
> >       7 'REL_8'
> >       1 'REL_7'
> >       1 'REL_4.15'
> >
> > Looks like requiring REL_11 would still be a pretty large ask.
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> Possibly, although there are a few individuals who account for a
> significant number of the lagging instances. I'll send out some emails
> and see if we can improve the situation.

It certainly seems worth a try at a push at least.

It's kind of sad if our testing framework prevents us from shipping
with less insecure defaults.

//Magnus