On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@pivotal.io
> wrote:

> Currently, if you use 9.6 libpq to connect to a v10 server that requires
> SCRAM authentication, you get an error:
>
> psql: authentication method 10 not supported
>
> I'd like to apply this small patch to all the stable branches, to give a
> nicer error message:
>
> psql: SCRAM authentication not supported by this version of libpq
>
> It won't help unless you upgrade to the latest minor version, of course,
> but it's better than nothing. Any objections?


+1, even though it's not strictly speaking a bugfix to go in a backpatch, I
think it will help enough users that it's worth doing. And I can't see how
it could possibly be unsafe...

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