On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote: > It would make sense to have \password obey password_encryption GUC. Then > \password and ALTER USER would do the same thing, which would be less > surprising. Although it's also a bit weird for a GUC to affect client-side > behavior, so perhaps better to just document that \password will create a > SCRAM verifier, unless you explicitly tell it to create an MD5 hash, and add > a 'method' parameter to it.
Either of those would be fine with me, but I think we should do one of them. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers