On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 5:27 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Zhihong Yu <z...@yugabyte.com> writes:
> > Currently, in situation such as duplicate role creation, the server log
> > would show something such as the following:
>
> > 2022-07-22 13:48:18.251 UTC [330] STATEMENT:  CREATE ROLE test WITH LOGIN
> > PASSWORD 'foobar';
>
> > The password itself should be redacted before logging the statement.
>
> This has been proposed multiple times, and rejected multiple times,
> primarily because it offers only false security: you'll never cover
> all the cases.  (The proposed patch manages to create a bunch of
> false positives to go along with its false negatives, too.)
>
> The only safe answer is to be sure to keep the server log contents
> secure.  Please see prior discussions in the archives.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

Pardon my laziness.

I will pay more attention.

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