Re: Indent authentication overloading

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Currently, we overload "indent" meaning both "unix socket
> authentication" and "ident over tcp", depending on what type of
> connection it is. This is quite unfortunate - one of them being one of
> the most secure options we have, the other one being one of the most
> *insecure* ones (really? ident over tcp? does *anybody* use that
> intentionally today?)

> Should we not consider naming those two different things?

Maybe, but it seems like the time to raise the objection was six or
eight years ago :-(.  Renaming now will do little except to introduce
even more confusion.
        regards, tom lane