Re: "peer" authentication: cannot make "pg_ident.conf" work as I believe that the doc says that it should

On 2022-10-29 20:20:50 -0700, Bryn Llewellyn wrote:
> My problem stems from the fact that the goal statement that my inner
> voice expresses seems so simple to state. This is what I want:
>
> 1. I want to do this at the O/S prompt on the machine where my PG cluster has
> been started: "su mary".
>
> 2. Then I want to start a session (I use "psql" here an an example) like this:
> "psql -d postgres".
>
> 3. Then, at the "psql" prompt, I want "select session_user" to show "bob".

Set the PGUSER=bob in mary's environment.

        hp

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