Magnus Hagander wrote:
> In a number of places in pg_hba.conf, we don't actually log what goes
> wrong - instead we just goto a label that will log "invalid token \"%s\"".
>
> Is there any special reason for this, other than the fact that it was
> the easy way out? I think it would be reasonable to for example log
> "hostssl not supported on this platform" instead of that, when USE_SSL
> is not defined, etc.
Without actually looking at what you're considering, I think it could be
a security bug if you were to disclose all the details to the user.
Perhaps the details can be passed to errdetail_log() to avoid this
problem.
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