Feature-gate PostgreSQL password authentication crypto #4416

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Relates to #4081

Description

Could PostgreSQL password authentication be placed behind an optional feature, following the pattern introduced for MySQL RSA in #4142?

sqlx-postgres currently always includes cleartext password, MD5, and SCRAM authentication support. This pulls in dependencies such as md-5, hmac, sha2, and stringprep, even for deployments that exclusively use PostgreSQL client-certificate authentication.

Making password authentication optional would reduce unused dependencies and audit surface. It would also help FIPS-oriented deployments ensure that unused cryptographic operations are excluded from the binary rather than implemented outside their selected validated cryptographic module.

Prefered solution

Add a default-enabled feature such as:

postgres-password-auth = [
    "dep:md-5",
    "dep:hmac",
    "dep:sha2",
    "dep:stringprep",
]

Is this a breaking change? Why or why not?

Potentially. Public APIs can remain compatible, but builds using
default-features = false may need to enable postgres-password-auth
to retain existing password-authentication behavior. This is similar
to the compatibility impact described in #4142.