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commit    e262e9037c721b63d7c681bb78c4bab2e84fcc15
Author:   Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date:     Thu Jul 21 17:58:20 2022 +0000
First released in: 16.0, 10.22, 11.17, 12.12, 13.8, 14.5, 15.0

    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


 doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
index 0aadc6abe9d..72480a3bb6d 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>


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