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Essentially this moves the non-interactive part of psql's "\password" command into an exported client function. The password is not sent to the server in cleartext because it is "encrypted" (in the case of scram and md5 it is actually hashed, but we have called these encrypted passwords for a long time now) on the client side. This is good because it ensures the cleartext password is never known by the server, and therefore won't end up in logs, pg_stat displays, etc. In other words, it exists for the same reason as PQencryptPasswordConn(), but is more convenient as it both builds and runs the "ALTER USER" command for you. PQchangePassword() uses PQencryptPasswordConn() to do the password encryption. PQencryptPasswordConn() is passed a NULL for the algorithm argument, hence encryption is done according to the server's password_encryption setting. Also modify the psql client to use the new function. That provides a builtin test case. Ultimately drivers built on top of libpq should expose this function and its use should be generally encouraged over doing ALTER USER directly for password changes. Author: Joe Conway Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/b75955f7-e8cc-4bbd-817f-ef536bacbe93%40joeconway.com
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