Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:21:47 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: order of entries in admin docs
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Scott Marlowe escribió:

> Seems that Client Authentication should come right after Server
> Configuration.  After all, how is someone going to handle roles and
> database creation before they've authenticated?  Is there some reason
> for the order that I'm missing?  Is it an easy change?  I'd be happy
> to try and make a patch for something like that if there's a chance of
> it getting through / my figuring out how to do it in the docs.

Yeah, see postgres.sgml -- changing the order is just a matter of moving
where the entries appear.

The current order is probably just historical.

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