Re: Indent authentication overloading

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-11-18T18:41:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
>> 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?

What about the pg_ident file?  Are we going to rename it?  Are we
(better) going to have separate files for pg_peer and pg_ident?

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