From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Indent authentication overloading |
Date: | 2011-03-14 15:17:42 |
Message-ID: | 9144.1300115862@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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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
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