Re: Minor doc bug in 8.1.4 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Minor doc bug in 8.1.4
Date
Msg-id 200610112302.k9BN21J13129@momjian.us
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In response to Minor doc bug in 8.1.4  (Quinn Weaver <quinn@funkspiel.org>)
List pgsql-bugs
Thanks, text updated to:

    # Refer to the "Client Authentication" section in the
    # PostgreSQL documentation for a complete description
    # of this file.  A short synopsis follows.

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Quinn Weaver wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed a tiny but annoying documentation bug:
>
> pg_hba.conf (/etc/postgresql/8.1/main/pg_hba.conf on my Ubuntu system)
> begins with this comment:
>
> # PostgreSQL Client Authentication Configuration File
> # ===================================================
> #
> # Refer to the PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide, chapter "Client
> # Authentication" for a complete description.  A short synopsis
> # follows.
>
> However, there _is_ no PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide; as of 7.4,
> the PostgreSQL Guides were combined into a single Manual.  So the
> comment is somewhat misleading.
>
> It took me a few minutes of head-scratching, local system searching,
> and web searching to ascertain this.  Fixing the bug would save
> future pg newbies from this fate. :)
>
> Thanks for helping make PostgreSQL, whoever you are; you rock. :)
>
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