postgresql/src/test
Heikki Linnakangas eb61136dc7 Remove support for password_encryption='off' / 'plain'.
Storing passwords in plaintext hasn't been a good idea for a very long
time, if ever. Now seems like a good time to finally forbid it, since we're
messing with this in PostgreSQL 10 anyway.

Remove the CREATE/ALTER USER UNENCRYPTED PASSSWORD 'foo' syntax, since
storing passwords unencrypted is no longer supported. ENCRYPTED PASSWORD
'foo' is still accepted, but ENCRYPTED is now just a noise-word, it does
the same as just PASSWORD 'foo'.

Likewise, remove the --unencrypted option from createuser, but accept
--encrypted as a no-op for backward compatibility. AFAICS, --encrypted was
a no-op even before this patch, because createuser encrypted the password
before sending it to the server even if --encrypted was not specified. It
added the ENCRYPTED keyword to the SQL command, but since the password was
already in encrypted form, it didn't make any difference. The documentation
was not clear on whether that was intended or not, but it's moot now.

Also, while password_encryption='on' is still accepted as an alias for
'md5', it is now marked as hidden, so that it is not listed as an accepted
value in error hints, for example. That's not directly related to removing
'plain', but it seems better this way.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16e9b768-fd78-0b12-cfc1-7b6b7f238fde@iki.fi
2017-05-08 11:26:07 +03:00
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authentication Remove support for password_encryption='off' / 'plain'. 2017-05-08 11:26:07 +03:00
examples Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
isolation Move isolationtester's is-blocked query into C code for speed. 2017-04-10 10:26:54 -04:00
locale Clean up Perl code according to perlcritic 2017-03-27 08:18:22 -04:00
mb Fix MB regression tests for WAL-logging of hash indexes. 2017-03-15 07:25:36 -04:00
modules Ensure commands in extension scripts see the results of preceding DDL. 2017-05-02 18:06:09 -04:00
perl Fix TAP infrastructure to support Mingw better 2017-04-23 09:21:38 -04:00
recovery Additional tests for subtransactions in recovery 2017-04-27 14:26:57 +02:00
regress Remove support for password_encryption='off' / 'plain'. 2017-05-08 11:26:07 +03:00
ssl Change 'diag' to 'note' in TAP tests 2017-03-28 20:38:06 -04:00
subscription Wait between tablesync worker restarts 2017-04-28 13:47:46 -04:00
thread Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
Makefile Add TAP tests for password-based authentication methods. 2017-03-17 11:34:16 +02:00
README Add TAP tests for password-based authentication methods. 2017-03-17 11:34:16 +02:00

PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication

thread/
  A thread-safety-testing utility used by configure