On 13 jan 2009, at 15.20, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>
>>> Now that we have support for mappings, I expect it will be more
>>> common
>>> for a user to authenticate with princ 'A' and then connect using
>>> their
>>> Unix id 'B' to a PG user 'B'. As such, I'm alright with dropping
>>> support for this. Users can always use -U (or equiv) if necessary.
>>
>> I have applied this version of the patch.
>
> yay!
>
> Incidentally, this will have to be in the update notes I think.
There are a number of changes around the auth methods and pg_hba in
8.4, that we need to carefully note.
/Magnus
>
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