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