Re: pg_hba.conf parse error gives wrong line number - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_hba.conf parse error gives wrong line number
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Msg-id 200212102000.gBAK0qa26334@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to pg_hba.conf parse error gives wrong line number  (Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>)
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I see the problem with the line number here.  I will work on a fix now. 
Thanks.


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Oliver Elphick wrote:
> With this pg_hba.conf (line numbers from vi, of course):
> 
>   48 # TYPE  DATABASE    USER        IP-ADDRESS       IP-MASK          METHOD     49 
>   50 local   all         all                                           ident         sameuser
>   51 host    all                     127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1        ident s        ameuser
>   52 
> 
> we naturally get a parse error because of the missing user column entry
> in line 51.  But in the log we see:
> 
> Dec 10 19:27:42 linda postgres[10944]: [8] LOG:  parse_hba: invalid
> syntax in pg_hba.conf file at line 95, token "ident"
> 
> In a more complicated file, a bogus line number is going to make
> debugging very tricky.  I tried following this in gdb, but haven't
> managed to track it through the fork of the new backend.
> 
> -- 
> Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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