doc: Remove notes about "unencrypted" passwords.
authorNathan Bossart
Wed, 4 Jun 2025 14:47:25 +0000 (09:47 -0500)
committerNathan Bossart
Wed, 4 Jun 2025 14:47:25 +0000 (09:47 -0500)
The documentation for the pg_authid system catalog and the
pg_shadow system view indicates that passwords might be stored in
cleartext, but that hasn't been possible for some time.

Oversight in commit eb61136dc7.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aD2yKkZro4nbl5ol%40nathan
Backpatch-through: 13

doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml
doc/src/sgml/system-views.sgml

index 018f6e3e08bae98b561f352610e4642957e5313b..fa86c569dc497172e4f7f12fb92c4cd7d812db4a 100644 (file)
        rolpassword text
       
       
-       Password (possibly encrypted); null if none. The format depends
+       Encrypted password; null if none. The format depends
        on the form of encryption used.
       
      
@@ -1627,11 +1627,6 @@ SCRAM-SHA-256$<iteration count>:&l
    ServerKey are in Base64 encoded format. This format is
    the same as that specified by RFC 5803.
   
-
-  
-    A password that does not follow either of those formats is assumed to be
-    unencrypted.
-  
  
 
 
index b58c52ea50f5a537d16a60ebdeb30b7f5554b20d..986ae1f543dbd0d7f57b88054c2bab48cb3ded5b 100644 (file)
@@ -3932,7 +3932,7 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_locks pl LEFT JOIN pg_prepared_xacts ppx
        passwd text
       
       
-       Password (possibly encrypted); null if none.  See
+       Encrypted password; null if none.  See
        pg_authid
        for details of how encrypted passwords are stored.