Actually, my job is to test our products’ compatibility with 13 databases, PostgreSQL is one of them. I see a lot of documentation and so far PostgreSQL has been relatively friendly.
However, this very roundabout way of saying things, so much so that you need to ask a PostgreSQL person how to interpret the phrasing is not user-friendly. After I’m done with PostgreSQL 10 new features’ testing, I’m moving on to test other databases’ new versions and their features. If I was a DBA whose company considered moving to work with PostgreSQL, and I saw this obscure phrasing, and the clumsiness to this code, I’d tell my bosses to think twice about PostgreSQL and maybe try a sturdier database.
From: David G. Johnston [mailto:david.g.johnston@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 16:25
To: Meirav Rath <meirav.rath@imperva.com>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>; Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>; pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #15035: scram-sha-256 blocks all logins
On Tuesday, January 30, 2018, Meirav Rath <meirav.rath@imperva.com> wrote:
If what you’re trying to say is “switch the order of the two lines in the file” then that is a very, very obscure way of doing it.
True, but you are probably more likely to remember it since you correctly interpreted the docs as they apply to your situation.
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