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Re: Psql meta-command conninfo+

Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>

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From: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>
To: Hunaid Sohail <hunaidpgml@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Maiquel Grassi <grassi@hotmail.com.br>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, "Imseih (AWS), Sami" <simseih@amazon.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru>, Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name>
Date: 2024-10-02T09:47:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

On 02.10.24 06:48, Hunaid Sohail wrote:
> Should I revert to the v34 docs for Session User, or is it fine as is?

What I tried to say is that the current description is a bit vague ---
specially "Authenticated User".

> Authenticated User: The name of the user returned by PQuser()
> Session User: The session user's name.

I thought it would be nice to have a description that tells how both
Session and Authenticated users differ. IMHO *only* a reference to
PQuser() doesn't say much, but others might be ok with it. So let's see
what the other reviewers say.

-- 
Jim

Commits

  1. psql: Change new \conninfo to use SSL instead of TLS

  2. Change \conninfo to use tabular format

  3. Update extension lookup routines to use the syscache

  4. Improve COPY TO performance when server and client encodings match

  5. doc: Remove superfluous bracket in synopsis

  6. Remove psql support for server versions preceding 9.2.