Re: Indent authentication overloading

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 16:17, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 14:43, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Also, the text is not accurate: nothing has been automatically changed
>>> to anything.  The pg_hba.conf file is just as it was.  You could say
>>> something like "ident" authentication on local socket treated as
>>> "peer", but I think a better idea would be to just remove this message
>>> altogether.
>
>> The idea being to let people know it's been deprecated, nothing else.
>> But sure, we can just remove the message - at elast for now, and maybe
>> add it $n releases down the road when people are expected to have
>> changed over.
>
> I'm with Robert on this one --- the first reaction I had to your
> description of the patch was "why do we need a log message for that?"
> If there were some real reason to push people away from use of the
> non-preferred term, maybe it'd be worth nagging them to change; but
> there isn't.

Ok. fair enough, I'll take that part out.

Are people in general in favor of making the change provided I do that, then?


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