On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 4:45 AM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> On 02.03.22 16:45, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> > By that argument, we should have kept "password" (plain) as an
> > authentication method.
>
> For comparison, the time between adding md5 and removing password was 16
> years. It has been 5 years since scram was added.
It's been 7 years since this thread:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/54DBCBCF.9000600@vmware.com
As Jonathan and Stephen and others have said, anyone who wishes to
continue using MD5 or other plaintext methods can keep doing that for
5 more years with a supported version of PG. There is no excuse to
leave well known, flawed mechanisms in PG16.