Re: [PATCH] Documentation

On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> On 19/12/2025 17:14, Fujii Masao wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM Mikael Gustavsson
> >> <mikael.gustavsson@smhi.se> wrote:
> >>> This patch updates some examples in documentation client-auth.sgml from md5 to scram-sha-256
> >>> Reference:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/176595607507.978865.11597773194269211255%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
> >>
> >> Pushed and backpatched to PG18, thanks!
> >
> > 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.

> Let's update this example in createuser.sgml too while we're at it:

> > <computeroutput>CREATE ROLE joe PASSWORD 'md5b5f5ba1a423792b526f799ae4eb3d59e' SUPERUSER CREATEDB CREATEROLE
INHERITLOGIN;</computeroutput> 

> I get this output for that command now:

> SELECT pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', '', false);
> CREATE ROLE joe PASSWORD
>
'SCRAM-SHA-256$4096:vrJL1JVwK9VyDQ+XmGk2lg==$K32pX1bdFx3J+LeBcFpUOmaBnIUIduAexL+ufLYz/MI=:O6gxeGemIC3wbqEWMZXKAMOnQ5A1hM07nEu7KeSrEiE='
> SUPERUSER CREATEDB CREATEROLE INHERIT LOGIN NOREPLICATION NOBYPASSRLS;

+1

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?

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