Re: Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Salt is currently defined as char[2].  Should I encode the rand() as
> char[4] and send that, or skip null and still encode it as char[4].

There's no need to avoid nulls here, AFAICS.  Making the salt a
fixed-length binary string seems like the best bet.

            regards, tom lane