Steve Bergman <steve@rueb.com> writes:
> So, is my information old, and md5 is "just standard" now?
It is default now. I think you'd need to say ALTER USER u WITH
UNENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'foo' to push a cleartext password into pg_shadow.
(There may also still be a postgresql.conf setting that affects this,
but I'm too lazy to go look.)
regards, tom lane