Re: MySQL password function - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Roderick A. Anderson
Subject Re: MySQL password function
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0207101456070.24282-100000@main.cyber-office.net
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In response to Re: MySQL password function  (nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway))
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Neil Conway wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:58:09PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> > The insert statement has one value of "password('foo')."  Since the app
> > was designed for MySQL I'm sure I'll run into this later so I need to
> > figure out the PgSQL way or a workaround.
>
> I believe contrib/pgcrypto will do this for you (and give you a bunch
> of digest algorithms to choose from).

Neil, Philip,

Thanks for the ideas.  When I read Phillip's I thought "Oh Great" 'cause I
stay as far away from MySQL as I can.  Then I read Neil's reply and
slapped my forehead and said doh!


Again thanks,
Rod
--
  "Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..."


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