Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks

On 02.03.22 15:16, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> I find that a lot of people are still purposely using md5.  Removing 
>> it now or in a year would be quite a disruption.
> 
> What are the reasons they are still purposely using it? The ones I have 
> seen/heard are:
> 
> - Using an older driver
> - On a pre-v10 PG
> - Unaware of SCRAM

I'm not really sure, but it seems like they are content with what they 
have and don't want to bother with the new fancy stuff.

> What I'm proposing above is to start the process of deprecating it as an 
> auth method, which also allows to continue the education efforts to 
> upgrae. Does that make sense?

I'm not in favor of starting a process that will result in removal of 
the md5 method at this time.