Re: initdb -A ident, with params

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 10:28 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> In looking at the "peer patch", I notice that initdb still supports
> things like "-A ident map=foo", but it *only* supports this for ident,
> and nothing else. I'm pretty sure this is a leftover from the "ident
> sameuser" days, so that things like the RPM install could set it
> properly. Since this is not needed any more, I propose we take that
> out and make ident work the same way as any other authentication
> methods.
>
> At some point we might want to extend initdb to support any parameters
> (with validation, of course), but that's a much bigger thing. Just
> removing the (undocumented, btw) special case would make things more
> consistent.
>
> Thoughts?

RPMs don't need it anymore, so +1 for removing.
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