Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

2019-12-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On 2019-Dec-19, Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > Concretely, I propose the attached. Anybody want to editorialize on > > my short descriptions of the auth methods? > > Pushed after a bit more fiddling with the wording. Looks good, thanks. -- Álvaro Herrerahttps://www.2ndQuadrant

Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

2019-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Concretely, I propose the attached. Anybody want to editorialize on > my short descriptions of the auth methods? Pushed after a bit more fiddling with the wording. regards, tom lane

Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

2019-12-18 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Magnus Hagander writes: >> This was changed by Peter in >> commit 56811e57323faa453947eb82f007e323a952e1a1 along with the >> restructuring. It used to say "the following subsections". So techically I >> think that change is correct, but that doesn't necessarily make it helpful. >> But b

Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

2019-12-17 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander writes: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 5:01 PM Tom Lane wrote: >> I suggest changing the sect1's contents to be a list of available auth >> methods, linked to their subsections. That would provide approximately >> the same quality-of-use as the subsection TOC that used to be there. >

Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

2019-12-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 5:01 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander writes: > > This was changed by Peter in > > commit 56811e57323faa453947eb82f007e323a952e1a1 along with the > > restructuring. It used to say "the following subsections". So techically > I > > think that change is correct, but tha

Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

2019-12-17 Thread Dave Cramer
> Then, URLs pointing to that page (such as Dave evidently has bookmarked) > would break entirely, which doesn't seem like an improvement. > it was linked to in a bug report. Dave Cramer

Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

2019-12-17 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander writes: > This was changed by Peter in > commit 56811e57323faa453947eb82f007e323a952e1a1 along with the > restructuring. It used to say "the following subsections". So techically I > think that change is correct, but that doesn't necessarily make it helpful. > But based on how it

Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

2019-12-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 1:02 PM Dave Cramer wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 06:53, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:43 PM Dave Cramer >> wrote: >> >>> While following an old link to >>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/auth-methods.html >>> >>> I see a list of links to a

Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

2019-12-17 Thread Dave Cramer
On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 06:53, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:43 PM Dave Cramer wrote: > >> While following an old link to >> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/auth-methods.html >> >> I see a list of links to authentication methods. However: >> >> When I hit the current vers

Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

2019-12-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:43 PM Dave Cramer wrote: > While following an old link to > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/auth-methods.html > > I see a list of links to authentication methods. However: > > When I hit the current version > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-methods.html