Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.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