Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved
Date: 2019-12-17 16:01:03
Message-ID: 13336.1576598463@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> This was changed by Peter in
> commit 56811e57323faa453947eb82f007e323a952e1a1 along with the
> restructuring. It used to say "the following subsections". So techically I
> think that change is correct, but that doesn't necessarily make it helpful.

> But based on how it actually renders, since that section doesn't contain
> any actual useful info, we should perhaps just remove section 20.3
> completely. Peter, thoughts?

Then, URLs pointing to that page (such as Dave evidently has bookmarked)
would break entirely, which doesn't seem like an improvement.

I suggest changing the sect1's contents to be a list of available auth
methods, linked to their subsections. That would provide approximately
the same quality-of-use as the subsection TOC that used to be there.

regards, tom lane

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