Re: ident changes between 8.3 and 8.4

Andrew Dunstan skrev:
>     
>>
>> To make 8.4 behave like the previous "ident sameuser" way, just put
>> "ident". No map is needed.
>>   
> 
> 
> And it is documented in the release notes: 
> <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-4.html>, which 
> the OP should have read when upgrading.

Except this isn't backwards compatible, in the sense that leaving out 
sameuser on version 8.3 will give a different behaviour. This means that 
the script we are using to generate the pg_hba.conf file, needs to know 
about the version of postgres it's generating the pg_hba.conf file for.

So, the problem isn't in the fact that the syntax has been changed, but 
in the fact that you can't use sameuser as the mapname.

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