auth_delay

pause briefly before reporting authentication failure

Overview

ID	Extension	Package	Version	Category	License	Language
7970	auth_delay	auth_delay	`-`	SEC	PostgreSQL	C

Attribute	Has Binary	Has Library	Need Load	Has DDL	Relocatable	Trusted
--sL---	No	Yes	Yes	No	no	no

Relationships
See Also	pg_auth_mon credcheck login_hook passwordcheck passwordcheck_cracklib pgaudit set_user pg_permissions

PG18	PG17	PG16	PG15	PG14	PG13
-	-	-	-	-	-

This is a built-in contrib extension ship with the PostgreSQL kernel

shared_preload_libraries = 'auth_delay';  -- comma-separated list

Create this extension with:

CREATE EXTENSION auth_delay;

Last updated on 2025-10-28