Re: [DOCS] does md5 really help against sniffing?

2016-08-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 03:35:17PM +, jens.timmer...@gmail.com wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/auth-methods.html > Description: > > this page claims > 'If you are at all concerned about password

[DOCS] undocumented feature or bug in subquery : psql (PostgreSQL) 9.4.6 on SLES12 SP1

2016-08-25 Thread otter117
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/functions-subquery.html Description: psql (PostgreSQL) 9.4.6 on SLES12 SP1 2 tables a and b Table "public.a" Column | Type | Modifier

[DOCS] does md5 really help against sniffing?

2016-08-25 Thread jens . timmerman
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/auth-methods.html Description: this page claims 'If you are at all concerned about password "sniffing" attacks then md5 is preferred. ' but how does this really help? If an md5 ha

Re: [DOCS] Order of Operations for Update Command

2016-08-25 Thread Tom Lane
simonwh...@dciphercomputing.com writes: > Does the Update command update the columns in the order they are listed? Notionally, they're all done concurrently. This is embodied in our docs by defining the update source expressions thus: An expression to assign to the column. The expression

[DOCS] Order of Operations for Update Command

2016-08-25 Thread simonwhite
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-update.html Description: Does the Update command update the columns in the order they are listed? Can an updated column's new value be used in the value calculation for a subse