Re: [HACKERS] Changing references of password encryption to hashing

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 07:01:32PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 05:55:06PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 12:52:23PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > >> What's the point of randomly reviving threads from 6 years ago, without any
> > >> further analysis?
> > 
> > > Well, I feel like this is an imporant change, and got dropped because it
> > > was determined to not be a new change in Postgres 10.  Still I think it
> > > should be addressed and am looking to see if others feel the same.
> > 
> > You're expecting people to re-research something that dropped off the
> > radar years ago, probably because it wasn't sufficiently interesting
> > at the time.  If the point hasn't been raised again since then,
> > I'd guess it's not any more interesting now.  Most of us have better
> > things to do than go re-read old threads --- and dredging them up
> > ten at a time is not improving the odds that people will care to look.
> 
> I can do the work. I was more looking for any feedback that this is a
> valid area to work on.  I will do some work on this and publish an
> updated patch because I think using the right terms makes sense.

Let me also add that I apologize for brining up these old threads.  I
feel badly I didn't address them years ago, I feel bad for the original
posters, and I do think there is some value in addressing some of them,
which I think is validated by the many useful doc patches I have made
over the past few weeks.  I am over half done and hope everyone can be
patient with me while I do my best to finish this long-overdue job.

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