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| author | Bruce Momjian | 2022-07-21 17:58:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian | 2022-07-21 17:58:29 +0000 |
| commit | e262e9037c721b63d7c681bb78c4bab2e84fcc15 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e0e7278c761d368cf64c7da33f66bb96e4a85b5 /doc/src | |
| parent | 1078742af015d7dd26cbe3078f09dec9d6d589f9 (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/src')
| -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 0aadc6abe9d..72480a3bb6d 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> |