Re: Indent authentication overloading

Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl>

From: Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-17T16:10:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2010-11-17 22:43, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> at the advantage of not confusing new users. We could of course also
> just drop ident-over-tcp completely, but there might be some poor guy
> out there who actually *uses* it :-)

As far as I know, companies do use it in their internal networks where 
they do have a reasonable shot at full control over ident connections. 
I don't know how easy it would be for them to switch to other methods.


Jeroen