Re: passwords and 7.3

tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
>...
> As of current sources, an MD5-stored password can be used with either
> password or md5 auth protocol --- but AFAICS the only reason you'd want
> to use password (cleartext) protocol would be backwards compatibility
> with ancient client libraries.  (Due to an oversight, 7.3 release
> required you to use md5 protocol with an md5 password; this is fixed for
> 7.3.2, but I don't recall whether it got into 7.3.1 or not.)

Yes it is in 7.3.1: you can use cleartext password authentication protocol
with MD5 stored passwords. Which is good, because among those "ancient"
client libraries is the only available copy of libpq.dll and libpgtcl.dll
I'm aware of.