From d587813edba16ae52330c881c27e4c91799a0d9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Eisentraut Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:10:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Remove incorrect SCRAM protocol documentation The documentation claimed that one should send "pg_same_as_startup_message" as the user name in the SCRAM messages, but this did not match the actual implementation, so remove it. --- doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml index 2bb4e38a9db..4931857c8e0 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml @@ -1410,9 +1410,7 @@ that the client sends in the client-first-message. The user name that was already sent in the startup message is used instead. PostgreSQL supports multiple character encodings, while SCRAM dictates UTF-8 to be used for the user name, so it might be impossible to -represent the PostgreSQL user name in UTF-8. To avoid confusion, the client -should use pg_same_as_startup_message as the user name in the -client-first-message. +represent the PostgreSQL user name in UTF-8.