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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Parsing of pg_hba.conf and authentication inconsistencies
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Msg-id 15058.1217736856@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Parsing of pg_hba.conf and authentication inconsistencies  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> True enough but perhaps that is a problem in itself. IMO, we should be 
> encouraging people to never touch the postgres binary.

I don't buy that at all.  pg_ctl is useful for some people and not so
useful for others; in particular, from the perspective of a system
startup script it tends to get in the way more than it helps.
        regards, tom lane

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