These files have apparently been edited over the years by a dozen people
with as many different editor settings, which made the alignment of the
paragraphs quite inconsistent and ugly. I made a pass of M-q with Emacs
to straighten it out.
* make LDAP use this instead of the hacky previous method to specify
the DN to bind as
* make all auth options behave the same when they are not compiled
into the server
* rename "ident maps" to "user name maps", and support them for all
auth methods that provide an external username
This makes a backwards incompatible change in the format of pg_hba.conf
for the ident, PAM and LDAP authentication methods.
each connection. This makes it possible to catch errors in the pg_hba
file when it's being reloaded, instead of silently reloading a broken
file and failing only when a user tries to connect.
This patch also makes the "sameuser" argument to ident authentication
optional.