From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
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Subject: Re: pg_authid.rolpassword format (was Re: Password identifiers, protocol aging and SCRAM protocol)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:14:40 -0500
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David,
* David Fetter (david@fetter.org) wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 08:34:19AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > * Heikki Linnakangas (hlinnaka@iki.fi) wrote:
> > > Even if you have a separate "verifier type" column, it's not fully
> > > normalized, because there's still a dependency between the
> > > verifier and verifier type columns. You will always need to look
> > > at the verifier type to make sense of the verifier itself.
> >
> > That's true- but you don't need to look at the verifier, or even
> > have *access* to the verifier, to look at the verifier type.
>
> Would a view that shows only what's to the left of the first semicolon
> suit this purpose?
Obviously a (security barrier...) view or a (security definer) function
could be used, but I don't believe either is actually a good idea.
Thanks!
Stephen
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Subject: Re: pg_authid.rolpassword format (was Re: Password identifiers, protocol aging and SCRAM protocol)
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