Dear all, Pls. let me suggest the correction for the https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/auth-username-maps.html page. It has the following sentence: ' If the database-username field starts with a slash (/), the remainder of the field is treated as a regular expression (see Section 9.7.3.1 for details of PostgreSQL's regular expression syntax). It is not possible to use \1 to use a capture from regular expression on system-username for a regular expression on database-username. ' It looks like 'to use a capture' has to be replaced by 'to capture'. best regards
What is written is factually correct. Your suggestion makes it incorrect; and wouldn't be good English even if it was.
"to capture" involves (...) while using said capture involves \#
