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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: removal of md5 from example code
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Msg-id 240575e3-3734-a5c2-eb1a-543715b9c7c7@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to removal of md5 from example code  (PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
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On 1/17/18 11:14, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The documentation at
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/citext.html shows an example
> using md5 for password hashes. This is generally a bad practice and not
> relevant to the feature documented. 
> 
> I recommend removing the password column from this example or replacing the
> md5 hash with something more secure (a secure hash algorithm with a salt).

This has been fixed in the master branch.

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