Re: Documentation Suggestion

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 06:23:43PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.

Patch applied to all supported branches.

--
Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> https://momjian.us
EDB https://enterprisedb.com

Indecision is a decision. Inaction is an action. Mark Batterson