Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 18:16:38 +0200,
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Does anyone else feel that the pg_hba.conf inline documentation is getting
> > too long? The default file is now 259 lines. I feel we should try to cut
> > this down to about 30-50 lines that have a reminder function, not a
> > complete specification.
>
> Yes. The documentation in the config file should be available in the normal
> documentation and hence only used to prompt an admin's memory, not provide
> a detailed spec. Unless this documentation is built automatically it is
> just two copies of the same data that have to be separately maintained.
> However, it isn't a big deal for an admin to delete the comments if they
> want.
Yes, it is probably time to pull that stuff out of there and get it into
SGML.
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