On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, I see. But I still don't think we really need to provide specific
> examples of what you get when you MD5 particular values... except for
> people who can run the MD5 algorithm in reverse in their head, that
> doesn't seem like it's adding anything. Second try:
>
> Either the user's unencrypted password (if the UNENCRYPTED option was
> used when creating the role or if password_encryption is off), or the
> string 'md5' followed by a 32-character hexadecimal md5 hash. The md5
> hash will be of the user's password concatenated to their username
> (e.g. if user joe has password xyzzy, PostgreSQL will store the md5
> hash of xyzzyjoe). If the user has no password, this column will be
> NULL.
This version is fine by me.
Josh
