On 6/13/21 7:13 AM, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 07:36:54AM +0100, Geoff Winkless wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, 15:35 Alvaro Herrera, <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: >>> src/backend/libpq/auth.c:847: * has. If it's an MD5 hash, we must do >>> MD5 authentication, and if it's a >>> src/backend/libpq/auth.c:848: * SCRAM secret, we must do SCRAM >>> authentication. >> Not sure whether you were just listing examples and you weren't suggesting >> this should be changed, but surely "SCRAM" is pronounced "scram" and is >> thus "a SCRAM"? > RFC 5802 uses "a SCRAM something" commonly, but "a SCRAM" alone does > not make sense: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5802 > > The sentences quoted above look fine to me.
I don't think anyone was suggesting SCRAM should be used as a noun rather than as an adjective. But adjectives can be preceded by an indefinite article just as nouns can. The discussion simply left out the implied following noun. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
