Re: [HACKERS] Improving pg_hba.conf

2001-07-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
> What I mean is, do host lookups first in the text file, then if a > pg_hostaccess table (example) exists, check it for host entries. This > alleviates HUP or restart etc. to reload a config file. Can't do that. Postmaster has no database access. Must be fast. -- Bruce Momjian

Re: [HACKERS] Improving pg_hba.conf

2001-07-22 Thread David Ford
What I mean is, do host lookups first in the text file, then if a pg_hostaccess table (example) exists, check it for host entries. This alleviates HUP or restart etc. to reload a config file. David Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> >>>I haven't heard of any more issues with pg_hba.conf so I will mark

Re: [HACKERS] Improving pg_hba.conf

2001-07-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
> > > > > >I haven't heard of any more issues with pg_hba.conf so I will mark the > >item as done. I did cleanup the comments in the file. I have also > >added a TODO item: > > > > * Read pg_hba.conf only on postmaster startup or SIGHUP > > > > If you do this, can you add an access table fo

Re: [HACKERS] Improving pg_hba.conf

2001-07-22 Thread David Ford
> > >I haven't heard of any more issues with pg_hba.conf so I will mark the >item as done. I did cleanup the comments in the file. I have also >added a TODO item: > > * Read pg_hba.conf only on postmaster startup or SIGHUP > If you do this, can you add an access table for secondary lookup

Re: [HACKERS] Improving pg_hba.conf

2001-07-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
> We have the following item on TODO: > > * Overhaul pg_hba.conf host-based authentication > > Can people tell me what they want changed. I know we need the pg_shadow > password field encrypted in the table and I will work on that now. I haven't heard of any more issues with pg_hba.conf