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Re: password_encryption, default and 'plain' support

Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-05-06T10:44:40Z
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On 05/05/2017 02:42 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> +        This option is obsolete but still accepted for backwards
> +        compatibility.
> Isn't that incorrect English?

No.

> It seems to me that this be non-plural,
> as "for backward compatibility".

"Backwards" is not plural, it's a regional variation of "backward" (or
vice versa depending on which region you come from).  Both are correct.

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Vik Fearing                                          +33 6 46 75 15 36
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Commits

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