On 2021-May-16, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> OK, what I was trying to say was that if you dump/restore, and the old
> password was md5, the newly-restored password will be md5, but it was
> very unclear.  I changed it to this:
> 
>       <listitem>
>       <!--
>       Author: Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org>
>       2020-06-10 [c7eab0e97] Change default of password_encryption to 
> scram-sha-256
>       Author: Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org>
>       2020-06-10 [c7eab0e97] Change default of password_encryption to 
> scram-sha-256
>       -->
>       
>       <para>
>       Change the default of the password_encryption server parameter to
>       scram-sha-256 (Peter Eisentraut)
>       </para>
>       
>       <para>
>       Previously it was md5.  All new passwords will be stored as SHA256
>       unless this server variable is changed or the password is specified
>       in md5 format.  Also, the legacy (and undocumented) boolean-like
>       values which were previously synonyms for <literal>md5</literal>
>       are no longer accepted.
>       </para>
>       </listitem>

Ah, yeah, now I understand.  WFM.

Thanks

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