> BTW, while digging through my mail archives I discovered that Oliver
> *did* already extract his "peer" auth patch and submit it as a proposed
> patch --- see the pghackers archives for 3-May-2001. At the time I
> think we were concerned about portability issues, but as long as it's
> appropriately autoconf'd and documented, I see no real objection to
> supporting SO_PEERCRED authentication.
>
> I do still like Helge's API (use "ident") better than adding another
> auth keyword, though.
Can someone find the Solaris patch submitted a few months ago that did a
similar thing? I can't seem to find it.
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