Re: LDAP(s) doc misleading

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 8:36 AM Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I found what I believe to be misleading in the LDAP documentation:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-ldap.html
>
> It says:
> "ldapscheme
> Set to ldaps to use LDAPS."...
>
> IMHO, it should say:
> "ldapscheme
> Set to ldapscheme to use LDAPS (ldapscheme=ldaps)."...

No, I think this is correct.

"Set to ldaps to use ldaps" means you set it to the value "ldaps" in
order to use ldaps.

I think you missed the "to" in the sentence -- without that one, your
reading of it would make more sense. See also the following parameter,
ldaptls, which uses similar language.

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