Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> ... But Oliver may feel that he has to
>> continue to support the "peer" keyword on Debian anyway, for backwards
>> compatibility. If so, do we want different ways of doing the same thing
>> on different distros, or should we just follow the Debian precedent to
>> keep things ugly-but-consistent?
> We could easily just accept peer as a synonym for ident for a few
> releases,
Or let Oliver patch the Debian package to accept peer as a synonym for
ident. I don't see any real need to encourage the use of that keyword
by non-Debianers...
regards, tom lane