On 02/10/2009, at 23:47 , Tom Lane wrote:
Preston de Guise <pres...@anywebdb.com> writes:
Using Perl to program interfaces to PostgreSQL, and had previously
misunderstood how md5 password authentication worked, so I'm now re-
doing it, but struggling to find out how DBD::Pg might be used to
actually authenticate by passing an md5 of the password instead of
the
real thing.
You should always pass the cleartext password. Any md5-ification will
be done by the low-level driver.
Thanks for the clarification Tom.
Cheers,
Preston.
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