Re: [PATCH] Documentation

On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 1:39 PM John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > On 19/12/2025 17:14, Fujii Masao wrote:

> > > This change made me wonder whether we should also update the
> > > pg_hba.conf examples
> > > in high-availability.sgml and logical-replication.sgml. I've attached
> > > a patch for that. Thoughts?
>
> Sorry, I neglected to look around for similar places to update. I
> don't see any other such places, so I will commit this and backpatch
> to PG18 as well.

I pushed your patch, thanks!

> > Let's update this example in createuser.sgml too while we're at it:
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> > > <computeroutput>CREATE ROLE joe PASSWORD 'md5b5f5ba1a423792b526f799ae4eb3d59e' SUPERUSER CREATEDB CREATEROLE
INHERITLOGIN;</computeroutput> 

> This will need to be backpatched to PG14. Unlike the md5 case, the
> encrypted password will not be reproducible. Since the above omission
> hasn't been noticed, I don't suppose we need to call out this fact?

I pushed a fix for this, including missing tokens for earlier branches
(and decided not to mention random salt for the example).

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John Naylor
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