Tag: sha2

Waiting for PostgreSQL 18 – Add modern SHA-2 based password hashes to pgcrypto.

On 5th of April 2025, Álvaro Herrera committed patch:

Add modern SHA-2 based password hashes to pgcrypto.
 
This adapts the publicly available reference implementation on
https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt and adds the new hash
algorithms sha256crypt and sha512crypt to crypt() and gen_salt()
respectively.
 
Author: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c763235a2757e2f5f9e3e27268b9028349cef659.camel@oopsware.de

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OmniPITR 0.2.0

Just released version 0.2.0 of OmniPITR. There is one important change – that is OmniPITR backup programs can now create checksum files for backups.

Details in docs, but the basic idea is that to all the other options to omnipitr-backup-{master,slave} we added (Phil Sorber to be exact) –digest option, which lets you specify that you want some checksums (md5, sha1, sha2).