From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:58:20 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: doc:  clarify that auth. names are lower case and case-sensitive
X-Git-Tag: REL_10_22~21
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7fa2bdeda62e310c87713e8e48d2caaf452b401e;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

doc:  clarify that auth. names are lower case and case-sensitive

This is true even for acronyms that are usually upper case, like LDAP.

Reported-by: Alvaro Herrera

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202205141521.2nodjabmsour@alvherre.pgsql

Backpatch-through: 10
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
index ed077ddb1e6..d6e1c4c92bf 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
@@ -381,7 +381,9 @@ hostnossl  <replaceable>database</replaceable>  <replaceable>user</replaceable>
       <para>
        Specifies the authentication method to use when a connection matches
        this record. The possible choices are summarized here; details
-       are in <xref linkend="auth-methods">.
+       are in <xref linkend="auth-methods">.  All the options
+       are lower case and treated case sensitively, so even acronyms like
+       <literal>ldap</literal> must be specified as lower case.
 
        <variablelist>
         <varlistentry>