Re: Re: Debian's PostgreSQL packages

> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
>   >> and it was never submitted to us a a patch.
>   >
>   >According to the README it was. Oliver, could you comment on this please?
>
> It was, a couple of months back.  Peter made some criticism of its use of
> autoconf, which I have changed.  I have not resubmitted the patch because
> the core team seemed to think it was not sufficiently portable.  If people
> want to include it in the main release, I will resubmit a revised patch.

I think our current idea is to have people run local ident servers to
handle this.  We don't have any OS-specific stuff in pg_hba.conf and I
am not sure if we want to add that complexity.  What do others think?

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