> On 7 Mar 2023, at 05:53, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 11:13:36PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> That would indeed be nice, but is there a way to do this without a complicated
>> pump TAP expression? I was unable to think of a way but I might be missing
>> something?
>
> A SET command refreshes immediately the cache information of the
> connection in pqSaveParameterStatus()@libpq, so a test in password.sql
> with \password would be enough to check the computation happens in
> pg_fe_scram_build_secret() with the correct iteration number. Say
> like:
> =# SET scram_iterations = 234;
> SET
> =# \password
> Enter new password for user "postgres": TYPEME
> Enter it again: TYPEME
> =# select substr(rolpassword, 1, 18) from pg_authid
> where oid::regrole::name = current_role;
> substr
> --------------------
> SCRAM-SHA-256$234:
> (1 row)
>
> Or perhaps I am missing something?
Right, what I meant was: can a pg_regress sql/expected test drive a psql
interactive prompt? Your comments suggested using password.sql so I was
curious if I was missing a neat trick for doing this.
--
Daniel Gustafsson
