Re: Indent authentication overloading

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> 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...

It doesn't strike me as urgent enough to be worth pushing through in a
hurry.  We have got plenty to do to get 9.1 out the door already ...

			regards, tom lane