> The confusion that 0001 is addressing is fair (cough, fc579e1, cough), > still I am wondering whether we could do a bit better to be more
Yeah, even after 0001 it's definitely suboptimal. I tried to keep the changes minimal to not distract from the main purpose of this patch. But I'll update the patch to have some more. I'll respond to your other question first > In what is your proposal different from the following > entry in pg_ident.conf? As of: > mapname /^(.*)$ \1 It's very different. I think easiest is to explain by example: If there exist three users on the postgres server: admin, jelte and michael Then this rule (your suggested rule): mapname /^(.*)$ \1 Is equivalent to: mapname admin admin mapname jelte jelte mapname michael michael While with the "all" keyword you can create a rule like this: mapname admin all which is equivalent to: mapname admin admin mapname admin jelte mapname admin michael
