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 ccd748d264a14761906cba9314c55215b02e79e0..1ff7852ab5500038bbbd873a37727344b31f12c1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
@@ -413,7 +413,9 @@ 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.