Re: Indent authentication overloading

On tor, 2011-03-10 at 22:45 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 22:22, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >
> > Added to TODO:
> >
> >        Rename unix domain socket 'ident' connections to 'peer', to avoid
> >        confusion with TCP 'ident'
> 
> Should we consider adding "peer" as an alias for "ident" already in
> 9.1 (and change the default pg_hba.conf template), and then deprecate
> ident for 9.2 and remove it in 9.3 or something? By adding the alias
> now (yes, I know it's not in the last CF :P), we can move what's going
> to be a long process up one release...

Might as well, if you can get it done soon.  The documentation might
need more extensive adjustments.