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commit    fa6c230ef23cfe5367cb883fd461580f6a42619d
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 b2a459fb0d1..433759928bc 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
@@ -417,7 +417,9 @@ hostnogssenc  <replaceable>database</replaceable>  <replaceable>user</replaceabl
       <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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