Re: Indent authentication overloading

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Indent authentication overloading
Date: 2011-03-11 14:36:30
Message-ID: 1299854190.5050.44.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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On tor, 2011-03-10 at 22:45 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 22:22, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > Added to TODO:
> >
> > Rename unix domain socket 'ident' connections to 'peer', to avoid
> > confusion with TCP 'ident'
>
> Should we consider adding "peer" as an alias for "ident" already in
> 9.1 (and change the default pg_hba.conf template), and then deprecate
> ident for 9.2 and remove it in 9.3 or something? By adding the alias
> now (yes, I know it's not in the last CF :P), we can move what's going
> to be a long process up one release...

Might as well, if you can get it done soon. The documentation might
need more extensive adjustments.

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