Re: Postgres in bash-mode

Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop@range.infoplease.com>

From: Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop@range.infoplease.com>
To: David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>
Cc: Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop@range.infoplease.com>, Maarten.Boekhold@reuters.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pucher@atlas.gis.univie.ac.at
Date: 2002-01-13T11:50:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 06:43, David Terrell wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 06:41:06AM -0500, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> > Basically, you can trust identd if and only if you know that its your
> > identd. But with identd, you can have a large number of scripts that
> > continue to work after you change the password. (Note that you cannot
> > use identd on the ub=nix socket).
> 
> 7.2 can run something like ident but better (guaranteed accurate) on 
> the unix socket on BSD and linux.


That's cool. Looks like I just got my rationale for doing the 7.2
upgrade sooner rather than later.

--
Karl