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| author | Bruce Momjian | 2022-07-21 17:58:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian | 2022-07-21 17:58:26 +0000 |
| commit | 7fa2bdeda62e310c87713e8e48d2caaf452b401e (patch) | |
| tree | 247f67f5793e4ee92f62d405bd4a2372fb2a4dfe /doc | |
| parent | 6bceacfe87ffb842e8a9bb5e005f324685be9fb7 (diff) | |
doc: clarify that auth. names are lower case and case-sensitive
This is true even for acronyms that are usually upper case, like LDAP.
Reported-by: Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202205141521.2nodjabmsour@alvherre.pgsql
Backpatch-through: 10
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index ed077ddb1e6..d6e1c4c92bf 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -381,7 +381,9 @@ hostnossl <replaceable>database</replaceable> <replaceable>user</replaceable> <para> Specifies the authentication method to use when a connection matches this record. The possible choices are summarized here; details - are in <xref linkend="auth-methods">. + are in <xref linkend="auth-methods">. All the options + are lower case and treated case sensitively, so even acronyms like + <literal>ldap</literal> must be specified as lower case. <variablelist> <varlistentry> |