> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I just applied a diff to better document the use of ident for localhost.
> > I think it is a good idea, and in some ways a better use of ident than
> > for remote machines. If I missed a spot that could be better
> > documented, let me know.
>
> <blockquote> means it's a quote. What you added there is not part of the
Moved out of blockquote.
> original source. Also, *please* make the pg_hba.conf.sample file shorter,
> not longer.
I have the idea of having the postmaster load the non-comment lines from
pg_hba.conf in as a List of character strings and have the postmaster
read through the strings, reloading on sighup. That way, we don't have
to read the file at all for each connection.
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