Re: Indent authentication overloading
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-17T18:26:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes: > If it was a matter of changing it for those who use ident over tcp, I > really wouldn't hesitate - they're few :-) But the problem is that > it's the ident-over-tcp that's correctly named, not the other one... Yeah, renaming the TCP version would be quite wrong. If we're going to do something about this, I agree with Peter's suggestion: add "peer" as the preferred name for the Unix-socket method, and deprecate but don't remove "ident". regards, tom lane