Documentation Bug/Misnomer?

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:

Greetings,

Under:

http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/runtime-config-file-locations.html

We have:

ident_file (string)

   Specifies the configuration file for ident authentication
       (customarily called pg_ident.conf). This parameter can only be set
       at server start.

That's not really accurate anymore, is it?  It's referring to the
username maps now, which are used for Ident, GSSAPI, SSL, etc..

That definitely looks wrong. How about this?

diff -c -r1.276 config.sgml
*** config.sgml	3 May 2010 10:31:29 -0000	1.276
--- config.sgml	18 May 2010 18:44:30 -0000
***************
*** 242,249 ****
        </indexterm>
        <listitem>
         <para>
!          Specifies the configuration file for
!          <application>ident</> authentication
           (customarily called <filename>pg_ident.conf</>).
           This parameter can only be set at server start.
         </para>
--- 242,248 ----
        </indexterm>
        <listitem>
         <para>
!          Specifies the configuration file for username mapping
           (customarily called <filename>pg_ident.conf</>).
           This parameter can only be set at server start.
         </para>

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* Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:

That definitely looks wrong. How about this?

Looks good to me, but I'd add a link to the Username Maps page.

Thanks!

Stephen

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:

* Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:

That definitely looks wrong. How about this?

Looks good to me, but I'd add a link to the Username Maps page.

Done and applied.

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