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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Add "password_protocol" connection parameter to libpq
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:05:08 +0200
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On 2019-08-12 18:02, Jeff Davis wrote:
> https://postgr.es/m/daf0017a1a5c2caabf88a4e00f66b4fcbdfeccad.camel%40j-davis.com
> 
> The weakness of proposal #1 is that it's not very "future-proof" and we
> would likely need to change something about it later when we support
> new methods. That wouldn't break clients, but it would be annoying to
> need to support some old syntax and some new syntax for the connection
> parameters.
> 
> Proposal #3 does not have this weakness. When we add sha-512, we could
> also add a parameter to specify that the client requires a certain hash
> algorithm for SCRAM.
> 
> Do you favor that existing proposal #3, or are you proposing a fourth
> option?

In this context, I would prefer #2, but I would expand that to cover all
authentication methods, not only password methods.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services





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