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Re: Indent authentication overloading

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-11-18T18:36:28Z
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On 11/18/2010 01:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I thought the proposal on the table was to add "peer" (or some other
> name) to refer to the unix-socket auth method, and use that term
> preferentially in the docs, while continuing to accept "ident" as an
> old name for it.  Is that really too confusing?

Not to me. And I think that's a good proposal.

cheers

andrew