Re: Re: Debian's PostgreSQL packages

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "J(dot)H(dot)M(dot) Dassen (Ray)" <jdassen(at)cistron-office(dot)nl>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: Debian's PostgreSQL packages
Date: 2001-07-11 21:55:02
Message-ID: 200107112155.f6BLt3927197@candle.pha.pa.us
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> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
> >> and it was never submitted to us a a patch.
> >
> >According to the README it was. Oliver, could you comment on this please?
>
> It was, a couple of months back. Peter made some criticism of its use of
> autoconf, which I have changed. I have not resubmitted the patch because
> the core team seemed to think it was not sufficiently portable. If people
> want to include it in the main release, I will resubmit a revised patch.

I think our current idea is to have people run local ident servers to
handle this. We don't have any OS-specific stuff in pg_hba.conf and I
am not sure if we want to add that complexity. What do others think?

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