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Re: Maximum password length

Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>

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From: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Alexander Kukushkin <cyberdemn@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, "isaac.morland@gmail.com" <isaac.morland@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-09-03T21:28:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 9/3/20, 2:14 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> If you insist, I'll change it, but it seems even less likely to ever
> matter to anybody than the changes to make simple_prompt accept
> indefinitely long passwords.  (Perhaps a reasonable compromise
> is to extend this comment to note that we're also not bothering
> to support indefinitely long passwords.)

I don't feel strongly about this.  A comment in the code seems
reasonable.

Nathan

Commits

  1. Remove arbitrary restrictions on password length.

  2. Remove support for password_encryption='off' / 'plain'.