Re: Indent authentication overloading

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 14:43, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Also, the text is not accurate: nothing has been automatically changed
>> to anything. The pg_hba.conf file is just as it was. You could say
>> something like "ident" authentication on local socket treated as
>> "peer", but I think a better idea would be to just remove this message
>> altogether.

> The idea being to let people know it's been deprecated, nothing else.
> But sure, we can just remove the message - at elast for now, and maybe
> add it $n releases down the road when people are expected to have
> changed over.

I'm with Robert on this one --- the first reaction I had to your
description of the patch was "why do we need a log message for that?"
If there were some real reason to push people away from use of the
non-preferred term, maybe it'd be worth nagging them to change; but
there isn't.

regards, tom lane