On 10/30/22 09:16, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Am Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 09:15:08PM -0700 schrieb Adrian Klaver:
>
>>> *# MAPNAME SYSTEM-USERNAME PG-USERNAME*
>>> *# ------- --------------- -----------
>>> bllewell mary mary
>>> *
>>>
>>>
>>> As has been said numerous times, it is utterly pointless to define a mapping like this
>>> - you get mary-is-mary for free just by saying peer.
>
> It certainly is but he probably did it just to check whether
> anything changes when another code path is run (the mapping)
> while the previously-working result (= successful login)
> should not change (mary is still mary). despite the
> additional code path.
Except the mapping was never in play as the map was not specified in
ph_hba.conf.
>
> It seems to be a way of bisecting in order to verify/falsify
> assumptions in his mental model.
>
> Karsten
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