Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks

On 02.03.22 21:26, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Part of the point, for my part anyway, of dropping support for plaintext
> transmission would be to remove support for that from libpq, otherwise a
> compromised server could still potentially convince a client to provide
> a plaintext password be sent to it.

I think there should be a generalized feature for client-side selecting 
or filtering of authentication methods.  As long as there exists more 
than one method, there will be tradeoffs and users might want to avoid 
one or the other.  I don't think removing a method outright is the right 
solution for that.