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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Changing references of password encryption to hashing
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 12:46:14 -0500
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 10:52:15PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 27.12.23 02:04, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I did_not_  change the user API, so CREATE/ALTER ROLE still uses
> > [ENCRYPTED] PASSWORD, the GUC is still called password_encryption, and
> > the libpq function is still called PQencryptPasswordConn().  This makes
> > the user interface confusing since the API uses "encryption" but the
> > text calls it "hashing".  Is there support for renaming the API to use
> > "hash" and keeping "encrypt" for backward compatiblity.
> 
> Yeah, this is clearly confusing.  I think we should just leave it alone.
> Some gentle rewording here and there to clarify things might be appropriate
> (but the text already uses hashing on some occasions), but the blanket
> replacement does not make things better, I think.

Seeing no more replies, I will abandon this improvement idea.

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