Preston de Guise <preston@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Using Perl to program interfaces to PostgreSQL, and had previously > misunderstood how md5 password authentication worked, so I'm now re- > doing it, but struggling to find out how DBD::Pg might be used to > actually authenticate by passing an md5 of the password instead of the > real thing. You should always pass the cleartext password. Any md5-ification will be done by the low-level driver. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general