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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml index 4f60b203fbc..c2b7abc603e 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml @@ -5902,7 +5902,9 @@ char *PQencryptPasswordConn(PGconn *conn, const char *passwd, const char *user, are the cleartext password, and the SQL name of the user it is for. <parameter>algorithm</> specifies the encryption algorithm to use to encrypt the password. Currently supported algorithms are - <literal>md5</>, <literal>scram-sha-256</> and <literal>plain</>. + <literal>md5</> and <literal>scram-sha-256</> (<literal>on</> and + <literal>off</> are also accepted as aliases for <literal>md5</>, for + compatibility with older server versions). Note that support for <literal>scram-sha-256</> was introduced in <productname>PostgreSQL</> version 10, and will not work correctly with older server versions. If <parameter>algorithm</> is <symbol>NULL</>, this function will query |