Re: Making pg_hba.conf case-insensitive - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Making pg_hba.conf case-insensitive
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Msg-id 15440.1471543599@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Making pg_hba.conf case-insensitive  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Making pg_hba.conf case-insensitive  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> I was looking at this TODO item from 2009:
>     https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4AA7B197.70002%40usit.uio.no
> I have implemented this in the attached patch.  It does two things:

Is there really enough demand for this to justify subtle breakage
of existing pg_hba.conf entries?  It'd probably have been fine if
we did it like that originally, but I think it's a bit late now.

Also, why strcasecmp and not pg_strcasecmp?  The former is going
to induce misbehavior in e.g. Turkish locales.
        regards, tom lane



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