Thanks for the clarification. According to this page,
https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/changelog.html#version_42.2.0,
scram support was added in JDBC driver 42.2.0. I am on 42.2.18. And using
the java code mentioned above, I still get the same error.

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 9:06 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Hemil Ruparel <hemilruparel2...@gmail.com> writes:
> > When I try to connect to the database, the log says:
> >> FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "user"
> >> DETAIL:  Connection matched pg_hba.conf line 88: "host    user
> > password          0.0.0.0/0               scram-sha-256"
>
> > So I think the client is using scram-sha-256
>
> No, what that says is that the server is going to insist on scram-sha-256.
> If the client can't handle SCRAM, then a failure would be expected.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

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