Waiting for 8.5 – checking password strength

On 18th of November Tom Lane committed patch by Laurenz Albe which adds very interesting capability:

Add a hook to CREATE/ALTER ROLE to allow an external module to check the
strength of database passwords, and create a sample implementation of
such a hook as a new contrib module "passwordcheck".
 
Laurenz Albe, reviewed by Takahiro Itagaki

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