Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
> 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...
Yeah, renaming the TCP version would be quite wrong. If we're going to
do something about this, I agree with Peter's suggestion: add "peer" as
the preferred name for the Unix-socket method, and deprecate but don't
remove "ident".
regards, tom lane
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