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From: Joshua Brindle <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: samay sharma <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 11:12:17 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 4:45 AM Peter Eisentraut
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 02.03.22 16:45, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> > By that argument, we should have kept "password" (plain) as an
> > authentication method.
>
> For comparison, the time between adding md5 and removing password was 16
> years.  It has been 5 years since scram was added.

It's been 7 years since this thread:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]

As Jonathan and Stephen and others have said, anyone who wishes to
continue using MD5 or other plaintext methods can keep doing that for
5 more years with a supported version of PG. There is no excuse to
leave well known, flawed mechanisms in PG16.

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