On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote: > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote: >> In various threads on SCRAM, we've skirted around the question of whether >> we should still allow storing passwords in plaintext. I've avoided >> discussing that in those other threads, because it's been an orthogonal >> question, but it's a good question and we should discuss it. >> >> So, I propose that we remove support for password_encryption='plain' in >> PostgreSQL 10. If you try to do that, you'll get an error. > > Is there any usecase at all for it today?
For developers running applications on top of Postgres?
I don't get it. How does password_encryption=plain help them?
