auth_delay auth_delay causes the server to pause briefly before reporting authentication failure, to make brute-force attacks on database passwords more difficult. Note that it does nothing to prevent denial-of-service attacks, and may even exacerbate them, since processes that are waiting before reporting authentication failure will still consume connection slots. In order to function, this module must be loaded via in postgresql.conf. auth_delay.milliseconds (int) auth_delay.milliseconds configuration parameter The number of milliseconds to wait before reporting an authentication failure. The default is 0. In order to set these parameters in your postgresql.conf file, you will need to add auth_delay to . Typical usage might be: # postgresql.conf shared_preload_libraries = 'auth_delay' custom_variable_classes = 'auth_delay' auth_delay.milliseconds = '500' KaiGai Kohei kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com