Re: crypt function crash on postgresql 9.3.20 and 10 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Feb 2, 2018 8:15 PM, "Mike Porter" <mike@udel.edu> wrote:

On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Михаил Манерко wrote:

If you send an asterisk in the crypt function, the function crashes.


example

i=# select crypt('123','*');
ОШИБКА:  invalid salt
i=#

The second argument is the salt, and you have not passed enough bits
for the default hash type.

i=> select crypt( '123', 'aa' );
     crypt
---------------
 aamrgyQfDFSHw
(1 row)

      Hi, 

              Yeah Mike what u said is correct, the consistency of bits for generation of salt depends on algorithms like blow fish, md5 etc