Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 02.03.22 16:45, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> By that argument, we should have kept "password" (plain) as an 
> authentication method.

For comparison, the time between adding md5 and removing password was 16 
years.  It has been 5 years since scram was added.