From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, jhebert(at)micron(dot)com, Pg Docs <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Documentation Suggestion |
Date: | 2022-07-14 22:23:43 |
Message-ID: | YtCXb/J03HBAcHPQ@momjian.us |
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On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 08:36:18AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> fOn Sat, May 14, 2022 at 05:21:58PM +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2022-May-13, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Note that valid --auth option values are all lower case, even
> > > for authentication types that typically appear as all upper case,
> > > e.g., "LDAP".
> >
> > Yeah, that was my initial thought too. The case-sensitivity is a
> > consideration for other things too (such as locale or encoding names),
> > but for those we do match the operating system name exactly, rather than
> > using our own lower-case version of it, which nobody else uses.
> >
> > So really the point is not about the fact that it is case sensitive as
> > that the case of our name doesn't match the usual one. Maybe the note
> > should be "Note that authentication types are all lower case, [even for
> > ...]" or something like that.
Here is a patch that implements this.
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