Re: Indent authentication overloading - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Indent authentication overloading
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Msg-id 9144.1300115862@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Indent authentication overloading  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Indent authentication overloading
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 14:43, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.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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