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From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
To: Gurjeet Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
Cc: Brindle, Joshua <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PoC/RFC] Multiple passwords, interval expirations
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:29:24 -0700
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On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 14:28 -0700, Gurjeet Singh wrote:

> This way there's a notion of a 'new' and 'old' passwords.

IIUC, you are proposing that there are exactly two slots, NEW and OLD.
When adding a password, OLD must be unset and it moves NEW to OLD, and
adds the new password in NEW. DROP only works on OLD. Is that right?

It's close to the idea of deprecation, except that adding a new
password implicitly deprecates the existing one. I'm not sure about
that -- it could be confusing.

We could also try using a verb like "expire" that could be coupled with
a date, and that way all old passwords would always have some validity
period. That might make it a bit easier to manage if we do need more
than two passwords.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis







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