md5 reference

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#1PG Bug reporting form
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
Description:

Hi,
In the last pg_hba example on the page md5 is used as method. Maybe it
should be changed to scram-sha-256 as that is the preferred method?

KR
Mikael Gustavsson

#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: PG Bug reporting form (#1)
Re: md5 reference

On 17.12.25 08:21, PG Doc comments form wrote:

The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
Description:

Hi,
In the last pg_hba example on the page md5 is used as method. Maybe it
should be changed to scram-sha-256 as that is the preferred method?

Yes, I think that would make sense to modernize that example.

#3Daniel Gustafsson
daniel@yesql.se
In reply to: Peter Eisentraut (#2)
Re: md5 reference

On 17 Dec 2025, at 13:20, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:

On 17.12.25 08:21, PG Doc comments form wrote:

The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
Description:
Hi,
In the last pg_hba example on the page md5 is used as method. Maybe it
should be changed to scram-sha-256 as that is the preferred method?

Yes, I think that would make sense to modernize that example.

Agreed, I was just looking at it after reading the report. @Mikael: would you
like to try your hand at proposing a patch for this?

--
Daniel Gustafsson

#4Gustavsson Mikael
mikael.gustavsson@smhi.se
In reply to: Daniel Gustafsson (#3)
SV: md5 reference

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Från: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Skickat: den 17 december 2025 13:33
Till: Peter Eisentraut
Kopia: Mikael Gustavsson; pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Ämne: Re: md5 reference

On 17 Dec 2025, at 13:20, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:

On 17.12.25 08:21, PG Doc comments form wrote:

The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
Description:
Hi,
In the last pg_hba example on the page md5 is used as method. Maybe it
should be changed to scram-sha-256 as that is the preferred method?

Yes, I think that would make sense to modernize that example.

Agreed, I was just looking at it after reading the report. @Mikael: would you
like to try your hand at proposing a patch for this?

--
Daniel Gustafsson

Absolutely, i can try, but I think I might need some guidance.

/Mikael

#5Daniel Gustafsson
daniel@yesql.se
In reply to: Gustavsson Mikael (#4)
Re: md5 reference

On 17 Dec 2025, at 14:16, Mikael Gustavsson <mikael.gustavsson@smhi.se> wrote:

Absolutely, i can try, but I think I might need some guidance.

Great! Feel free to ask anything either here, on the PostgreSQL Hacking
Discord or in an off-list email, whichever you prefer. The file in the source
tree you want to be looking at is doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml.

--
Daniel Gustafsson