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Re: Error message on missing SCRAM authentication with older clients

Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru>

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From: Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@pivotal.io>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-05-03T13:14:17Z
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Hi Magnus,

> +1, even though it's not strictly speaking a bugfix to go in a backpatch, I
> think it will help enough users that it's worth doing. And I can't see how
> it could possibly be unsafe...

Well, strictly speaking there could be applications that parse error
messages using regular expressions or something like this. But I don't
think it's something we should really bother about.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

Commits

  1. Give nicer error message when connecting to a v10 server requiring SCRAM.