Re: md5 reference

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: mikael.gustavsson@smhi.se, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-12-17T12:33:33Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
> On 17 Dec 2025, at 13:20, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?

--
Daniel Gustafsson




Commits

  1. Update pg_hba.conf example to reflect MD5 deprecation