Re: Programming interfaces when using MD5 authentication

On 02/10/2009, at 23:47 , Tom Lane wrote:

> Preston de Guise  writes:
>> Using Perl to program interfaces to PostgreSQL, and had previously
>> misunderstood how md5 password authentication worked, so I'm now re-
>> doing it, but struggling to find out how DBD::Pg might be used to
>> actually authenticate by passing an md5 of the password instead of  
>> the
>> real thing.
>
> You should always pass the cleartext password.  Any md5-ification will
> be done by the low-level driver.

Thanks for the clarification Tom.

Cheers,

Preston.