Re: replace all with * in pg_hba.conf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: replace all with * in pg_hba.conf
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Msg-id 20031219112726.C3016@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: replace all with * in pg_hba.conf  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: replace all with * in pg_hba.conf  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > The minimal disturbance change might be to teach the parser to
> > distinguish between a quoted 'all' and an unquoted 'all', and forget the
> > '*' idea.
>
> Probably we ought to go with that, on backwards-compatibility grounds.

why not do both, but deprecate the use of all in the docs?  say with an
eventual goal of removing the use of all altogether in 2 releases?

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