Re: [HACKERS] replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

2003-12-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc G. Fournier wrote: why not do both, but deprecate the use of all in the docs? say with an eventual goal of removing the use of all altogether in 2 releases? The extra value is fairly low IMNSHO if we can distinguish

Re: [HACKERS] replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

2003-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> why not do both, but deprecate the use of all in the docs? say with an >> eventual goal of removing the use of all altogether in 2 releases? > The extra value is fairly low IMNSHO if we can distinguish between a > magical an

Re: [HACKERS] replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

2003-12-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The minimal disturbance change might be to teach the parser to distinguish between a quoted 'all' and an unquoted 'all', and forget the '*' idea. Probably we ought to go with tha

Re: [HACKERS] replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

2003-12-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The minimal disturbance change might be to teach the parser to > > distinguish between a quoted 'all' and an unquoted 'all', and forget the > > '*' idea. > > Probably we ought to go with that, on backwards-compat

Re: [HACKERS] replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

2003-12-18 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The minimal disturbance change might be to teach the parser to > distinguish between a quoted 'all' and an unquoted 'all', and forget the > '*' idea. Probably we ought to go with that, on backwards-compatibility grounds. regar

Re: [HACKERS] replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

2003-12-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: If people are happy with Tom's suggestion of using '*' instead of 'all' in pg_hba.conf I will prepare a patch for it. Well, while we're breaking stuff in the name of improvement, what about databases named "*" or databases with space

Re: [HACKERS] replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

2003-12-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: If people are happy with Tom's suggestion of using '*' instead of 'all' in pg_hba.conf I will prepare a patch for it. Well, while we're breaking stuff in the name of improvement, what about databases named "*" or databases with spaces in their

Re: [HACKERS] replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

2003-12-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > If people are happy with Tom's suggestion of using '*' instead of > 'all' in pg_hba.conf I will prepare a patch for it. Well, while we're breaking stuff in the name of improvement, what about databases named "*" or databases with spaces in their names? --

[HACKERS] replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

2003-12-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
If people are happy with Tom's suggestion of using '*' instead of 'all' in pg_hba.conf I will prepare a patch for it. (I will also replace the ugly long IP6 localhost netmask with a CIDR mask). cheers andrew ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you ca