Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de> writes:
> the quoted code bit above in src/backend/libpq/auth.c is utterly
> broken: for peer authentication, it uses get_user_name(), which yields
> the *server* user name, not the client's. For that reason, peer
> authentication in 9.4devel is broken - you can't log in with your user
> name, but you can just say -U postgres (or what the initdb user was),
> and it will let you in.
> The attached patch reverts the src/backend/libpq/auth.c portion of
> 613c6d26bd42dd8c2dd0664315be9551475b8864 and fixes peer auth.
Applied, thanks!
regards, tom lane
