On 27.2.2015 17:59, Stephen Frost wrote: > All, > > * Tomas Vondra (tomas.von...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: >> >> The other feature that'd be cool to have is a debugging function >> on top of the view, i.e. a function pg_hba_check(host, ip, db, >> user, pwd) showing which hba rule matched. But that's certainly >> nontrivial. > > I'm not sure that I see why, offhand, it'd be much more than trivial > ...
>From time to time I have to debug why are connection attempts failing, and with moderately-sized pg_hba.conf files (e.g. on database servers shared by multiple applications) that may be tricky. Identifying the rule that matched (and rejected) the connection would be helpful. But yes, that's non-trivial and out of scope of this patch. -- Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
