> "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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