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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Waiting for PostgreSQL 18 – Non text modes for pg_dumpall, correspondingly change pg_restore

On 4th of April 2025, Andrew Dunstan committed patch:

Non text modes for pg_dumpall, correspondingly change pg_restore
 
pg_dumpall acquires a new -F/--format option, with the same meanings as
pg_dump. The default is p, meaning plain text. For any other value, a
directory is created containing two files, globals.data and map.dat. The
first contains SQL for restoring the global data, and the second
contains a map from oids to database names. It will also contain a
subdirectory called databases, inside which it will create archives in
the specified format, named using the database oids.
 
In these casess the -f argument is required.
 
If pg_restore encounters a directory containing globals.dat, and no
toc.dat, it restores the global settings and then restores each
database.
 
pg_restore acquires two new options: -g/--globals-only which suppresses
restoration of any databases, and --exclude-database which inhibits
restoration of particualr database(s) in the same way the same option
works in pg_dumpall.
 
Author: Mahendra Singh Thalor <mahi6run@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by:  Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Srinath Reddy <srinath2133@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cb103623-8ee6-4ba5-a2c9-f32e3a4933fa@dunslane.net

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