On 02/27/2015 10:35 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: >> 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. > To clarify, I was trying to say that writing that function didn't seem > very difficult to me. I definitely think that *having* that function > would be very useful. > >> > But yes, that's non-trivial and out of scope of this patch. > For my 2c, I view this as somewhat up to the author. I wouldn't > complain if it was included in a new version of this patch as I don't > think it'd add all that much complexity and it'd be very nice, but I > certainly think this patch could go in without that too.
Also, a testing function could be written in userspace after this feature is added. I can imagine how to write one as a UDF. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
