On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 17:10, Jeroen Vermeulen <j...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 2010-11-17 22:43, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> at the advantage of not confusing new users. We could of course also >> just drop ident-over-tcp completely, but there might be some poor guy >> out there who actually *uses* it :-) > > As far as I know, companies do use it in their internal networks where they > do have a reasonable shot at full control over ident connections. I don't > know how easy it would be for them to switch to other methods.
Yea, I think deleting it is going a bit overboard. If it was a matter of changing it for those who use ident over tcp, I really wouldn't hesitate - they're few :-) But the problem is that it's the ident-over-tcp that's correctly named, not the other one... -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
