ode class="filename">pg_ident.conf</code></a>.
   A row appears in this view for each non-empty, non-comment line in the file,
   with annotations indicating whether the map could be applied successfully.
  </p><p>
   This view can be helpful for checking whether planned changes in the
   authentication configuration file will work, or for diagnosing a previous
   failure.  Note that this view reports on the <span class="emphasis"><em>current</em></span>
   contents of the file, not on what was last loaded 