On 10/30/22 09:16, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
Am Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 09:15:08PM -0700 schrieb Adrian Klaver:*# MAPNAME SYSTEM-USERNAME PG-USERNAME* *# ------- --------------- ----------- bllewell mary mary * As has been said numerous times, it is utterly pointless to define a mapping like this - you get mary-is-mary for free just by saying peer.It certainly is but he probably did it just to check whether anything changes when another code path is run (the mapping) while the previously-working result (= successful login) should not change (mary is still mary). despite the additional code path.
Except the mapping was never in play as the map was not specified in ph_hba.conf.
It seems to be a way of bisecting in order to verify/falsify assumptions in his mental model. Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B
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