Re: Please test peer (socket ident) auth on *BSD

On 05/30/2011 07:57 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I've applied patches to fix Martin Pitt's report of peer auth failing on
> FreeBSD-amd64 kernels. I tested it with FreeBSD but do not have the
> resources to check every other platform that uses the same code branch
> in auth_peer. The buildfarm will soon tell us if the patches fail to
> compile anywhere, but since the buildfarm doesn't test that
> authentication path, it's not going to be as obvious whether it works.
>
> So, if you have a BSD-ish machine, please try HEAD and see if peer auth
> (or "ident" auth in older branches) still works for you. Extra points
> if you find out it used to be broken on your machine. (Hey Stefan, did
> you ever try that on spoonbill?)
>
>

There's actually no reason we couldn't test this in the buildfarm.
Turning it on unconditionally is a one-line change. Making it happen
just on the right platforms would be a few more lines, but nothing much.
It breaks the dblink regression tests, so we'd either have to get around
that or turn it off when checking contrib. I can add this if you think
it's worth it.

But I did try it on my FBSD/x86_64 VM and it passed the tests up till it
got to dblink, so there's another data point for you anyway.

cheers

andrew