Re: Indent authentication overloading

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 19:36, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 19:21, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> I thought the proposal on the table was to add "peer" (or some other
>>> name) to refer to the unix-socket auth method, and use that term
>>> preferentially in the docs, while continuing to accept "ident" as an
>>> old name for it.  Is that really too confusing?
>
>> Yes, that's the current proposal - and also have the system log that
>> "ident is deprecated, use peer" when it's found in the files.
>
> Personally I could do without that little frammish.  We don't issue
> wrist-slaps for other obsolete usages; why single out this one?

Fair enough. I may be guilty of thinking we should do it more often
;), but I agree that being consistent is more important.

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