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From: Chris Miller <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Test mail for pgsql-general
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:50:35 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <CAKFQuwbpdwCxDgY5cjDh-8uneNA010BLfd8TEGF5BJOksxRtbg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi David, 

> The second line is pointless, the first three columns are compared against the
> incoming connection host/user/dbname to find out how authentication should be
> handled. The first match wins. So for every local connection peer, and only
> peer, is going to be used since everything matches all/all.

> There is no way to give a user a choice of how to authenticate. There will be
> one accepted option for a given set of connection values.

This answers my question. Thanks for the help, 
-- 
Chris. 


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