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[email protected]

Backpatch-through: 10

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
index b2a459fb0d11fc4ed916987d026cc47527f304b9..433759928bc187f6c275ebc92313668461acd4c2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
@@ -417,7 +417,9 @@ hostnogssenc  database  user
       
        Specifies the authentication method to use when a connection matches
        this record. The possible choices are summarized here; details
-       are in .
+       are in .  All the options
+       are lower case and treated case sensitively, so even acronyms like
+       ldap must be specified as lower case.