auth_delay

Overview

CONTRIB Built-in Extension: auth_delay : pause briefly before reporting authentication failure

Information

• Extension ID: 7970
• Extension Name: auth_delay
• Package Name: None
• Category: SEC
• License: PostgreSQL
• Website: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-delay.html
• Language: C
• Extra Tags: N/A
• Comment: N/A

Metadata

• Latest Version: -
• Postgres Support: 17,16,15,14,13
• Need Load: Explicit Loading Required
• Need DDL: Dd not need CREATE EXTENSION DDL
• Relocatable: Unknown
• Trusted: Untrusted, Require Superuser to Create
• Schemas: N/A
• Requires: N/A

RPM / DEB

PostgreSQL Built-in Contrib Extension

Packages

Installation

Extension auth_delay is PostgreSQL Built-in Contrib Extension which is installed along with the kernel/contrib.

Install auth_delay RPM from YUM repo directly:

dnf install postgresql17-contrib;
dnf install postgresql16-contrib;
dnf install postgresql15-contrib;
dnf install postgresql14-contrib;
dnf install postgresql13-contrib;

Install auth_delay DEB from APT repo directly:

apt install postgresql-17;
apt install postgresql-16;
apt install postgresql-15;
apt install postgresql-14;
apt install postgresql-13;

Extension auth_delay has to be added to shared_preload_libraries

shared_preload_libraries = 'auth_delay'; # add to pg cluster config

Extension %s does not need CREATE EXTENSION command