Re: Indent authentication overloading

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 19:41, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> 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?
>
> What about the pg_ident file?  Are we going to rename it?  Are we

We should've done that long ago - it's already used for things that
aren't ident. If anything, it should be pg_usermap.conf.

> (better) going to have separate files for pg_peer and pg_ident?

Why? It already supports multiple maps...


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