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From: Scott Marlowe <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: order of entries in admin docs
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:01:12 -0600
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On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>  > The more I read the docs, the more moving client authentication seems
>  > to make sense.  In fact, the authentication problems section is
>  > probably the perfect final bit to the Connections and Authentication
>  > section.  I'd move it up a level, so that it looked something like
>  > this:
>  >
>  > 18.3. Connections and Authentication
>  >
>  >     18.3.1. Connection Settings
>  >     18.3.2. Security and Authentication
>  >     18.3.3. The pg_hba.conf file
>  >     18.3.4. Authentication methods
>  >     18.3.5. Authentication problems
>  >
>  > Unless a different level of indentation makes more sense, which I
>  > could totally understand.
>  >
>  > It definitely follows the flow of setting up a pg server better for
>  > me.  I might even move the pg_hba.conf file to 18.3.1 up there.  It is
>  > pretty much a firewall.
>
>  I don't think this change makes sense --- All the "Connection Settings"
>  stuff is in postgresql.conf. Pulling authentication in there will be too
>  complex, I am afraid.

Well, if you say so.  It seems like a natural part of it to me, but
the modifications required to move things like that are pretty big,
and I really don't feel comfortable enough in sgml to get it right.
The other move still makes more sense to me than the way it was
originally though.

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