Re: Add annotation syntax to pg_hba.conf entries

2023-10-10 Thread Jim Jones
Hi Robert, Hi Tom, Thanks for the feedback! On 05.10.23 00:55, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: >> You're probably not going to like this answer very much, but this >> doesn't seem particularly worthwhile to me. > Yeah, I was unconvinced about the number of use-cases too. > As you say, some

Re: Add annotation syntax to pg_hba.conf entries

2023-10-04 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > You're probably not going to like this answer very much, but this > doesn't seem particularly worthwhile to me. Yeah, I was unconvinced about the number of use-cases too. As you say, some support from other potential users could convince me otherwise, but right now the evide

Re: Add annotation syntax to pg_hba.conf entries

2023-10-04 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 4:06 PM Jim Jones wrote: > Any thoughts? You're probably not going to like this answer very much, but this doesn't seem particularly worthwhile to me. If somebody needs to document why they did something in pg_hba.conf, they can already put a comment in the file to explain

Add annotation syntax to pg_hba.conf entries

2023-10-04 Thread Jim Jones
Hi, I'm opening this thread after a brief discussion regarding a potential new syntax to enable annotations in pg_hba entries. [1] This feature mainly aims to annotate pg_hba entries in a way that the annotations can be parsed and displayed in the pg_hba_file_rule view for reporting purposes