On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 12:36 PM PG Doc comments form < nore...@postgresql.org> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/app-initdb.html > Description: > > Reference: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/app-initdb.html > > When installing recently I found the "-A " option of the initdb command > only > accepts lowercase argument. For example "-A LDAP" is not valid and must be > "-A ldap" otherwise the following error is returned: > initdb: invalid authentication method "LDAP" for "local" connections > > It may be worth adding a note to the above documentation that states all > option values must be specified in lowercase. > The -A option will accept any of the option names that are specified in the documentation for pg_hba.conf It just so happens that all of those names, at present, consist of all lower-case characters. That matching is case-sensitive is not specifically stated but is the default unless otherwise stated. The page could use a hyperlink/cross-reference to the pg_hba.conf documentation. But we don't go out of our way anywhere else to be so explicit about this kind of requirement and don't see a point of making this instance an exception. David J.
