Re: Documentation Bug/Misnomer?

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Under:
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/runtime-config-file-locations.html
>
> We have:
>
> ident_file (string)
>
>    Specifies the configuration file for ident authentication
>        (customarily called pg_ident.conf). This parameter can only be set
>        at server start.
>
> That's not really accurate anymore, is it?  It's referring to the
> username maps now, which are used for Ident, GSSAPI, SSL, etc..

That definitely looks wrong. How about this?

diff -c -r1.276 config.sgml
*** config.sgml 3 May 2010 10:31:29 -0000 1.276
--- config.sgml 18 May 2010 18:44:30 -0000
***************
*** 242,249 ****
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>
! Specifies the configuration file for
! <application>ident</> authentication
(customarily called <filename>pg_ident.conf</>).
This parameter can only be set at server start.
</para>
--- 242,248 ----
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>
! Specifies the configuration file for username mapping
(customarily called <filename>pg_ident.conf</>).
This parameter can only be set at server start.
</para>

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