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  1. Update pg_hba.conf example to reflect MD5 deprecation

  1. md5 reference

    The Post Office <noreply@postgresql.org> — 2025-12-17T07:21:15Z

    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?

KR
Mikael Gustavsson

  2. Re: md5 reference

    Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> — 2025-12-17T12:20:52Z

    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.

  3. Re: md5 reference

    Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> — 2025-12-17T12:33:33Z

    > 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

  4. SV: md5 reference

    Mikael Gustavsson <mikael.gustavsson@smhi.se> — 2025-12-17T13:16:27Z

    

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Från: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Skickat: den 17 december 2025 13:33
Till: Peter Eisentraut
Kopia: Mikael Gustavsson; pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Ämne: Re: md5 reference

> 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

Absolutely, i can try, but I think I might need some guidance.

/Mikael

  5. Re: md5 reference

    Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> — 2025-12-17T13:33:02Z

    > On 17 Dec 2025, at 14:16, Mikael Gustavsson <mikael.gustavsson@smhi.se> wrote:

> Absolutely, i can try, but I think I might need some guidance.

Great!  Feel free to ask anything either here, on the PostgreSQL Hacking
Discord or in an off-list email, whichever you prefer.  The file in the source
tree you want to be looking at is doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml. 

--
Daniel Gustafsson