On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 01:01:21PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
>> Any objections to fixing this in 17 by removing it? (cc:ing Michael from the RMT)
>
> +1 Something that is not documented or used by anyone (apparently) and
> is broken should just be removed.
8a02339e9ba3 sounds like an argument good enough to prove there is no
demand in the field for being able to support options through initdb
--auth, and this does not concern only pam. If somebody is interested
in that, that could always be done later. My take is that this would
be simpler if implemented through a separate option, leaving the
checks between the options and the auth method up to the postmaster
when loading pg_hba.conf at startup.
Hence, no objections to clean up that now. Thanks for asking.
--
Michael