Обсуждение: Re: md5 reference

On 17.12.25 08:21, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
> Description:
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> Hi,
> In the last pg_hba example on the page md5 is used as method. Maybe it
> should be changed to scram-sha-256 as that is the preferred method?

Yes, I think that would make sense to modernize that example.

> On 17 Dec 2025, at 13:20, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
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> On 17.12.25 08:21, PG Doc comments form wrote:
>> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
>> Description:
>> Hi,
>> In the last pg_hba example on the page md5 is used as method. Maybe it
>> should be changed to scram-sha-256 as that is the preferred method?
>
> Yes, I think that would make sense to modernize that example.

Agreed, I was just looking at it after reading the report.  @Mikael: would you
like to try your hand at proposing a patch for this?

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Daniel Gustafsson

> On 17 Dec 2025, at 14:16, Mikael Gustavsson <mikael.gustavsson@smhi.se> wrote:

> Absolutely, i can try, but I think I might need some guidance.

Great!  Feel free to ask anything either here, on the PostgreSQL Hacking
Discord or in an off-list email, whichever you prefer.  The file in the source
tree you want to be looking at is doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml.

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Daniel Gustafsson