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

On Thu, Mar  3, 2022 at 10:45:42AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.

Uh, when did we remove "password".  I still see it mentioned in
pg_hba.conf.  Am I missing something?

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