I think it would be useful to have separate initdb -A options for local and host entries. In 9.1, we went out of our way to separate the "peer" and "ident" methods, but we have moved the confusion into the initdb -A option, where "ident" sometimes means "peer", and "peer" sometimes means "ident". Moreover, having separate options would allow what I think would be a far more common use case, namely having local "peer" and host something other than "ident", such as "md5".
I'm thinking, we could keep the existing -A option, but add long options such as --auth-local and --auth-host, to specify more detail. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
