Re: [HACKERS] password_encryption, default and 'plain' support

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
>> In various threads on SCRAM, we've skirted around the question of whether
>> we should still allow storing passwords in plaintext. I've avoided
>> discussing that in those other threads, because it's been an orthogonal
>> question, but it's a good question and we should discuss it.
>>
>> So, I propose that we remove support for password_encryption='plain' in
>> PostgreSQL 10. If you try to do that, you'll get an error.
>
> Is there any usecase at all for it today?

For developers running applications on top of Postgres?