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
3 years ago · fa6c230ef2
parent b9654cecea
commit fa6c230ef2
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
--- 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>