On 2020-01-06 17:03, Tom Lane wrote:
So it's not clear to me whether we have any meeting of the minds on wanting this patch.
This fairly far-ranging syntax reorganization of pg_hba.conf doesn't appeal to me. pg_hba.conf is complicated enough conceptually for users, but AFAICT nobody ever complained about the syntax or the lexical structure specifically. Assigning meaning to randomly chosen special characters, moreover in a security-relevant file, seems like the wrong way to go.
Moreover, this thread has morphed from what it says in the subject line to changing the syntax of pg_hba.conf in a somewhat fundamental way. So at the very least someone should post a comprehensive summary of what is being proposed, instead of just attaching patches that implement whatever was discussed across the thread.
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