On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:28:42AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Joshua Tolley wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:43:55AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> So. I've updated the comment, and applied your patch. Thanks!
> >
> > What would it take to get it applied to a few earlier versions as well?
>
> I guess you maintaining your own fork? ;-)
>
>
> Simply put, earlier versions threw away the contents of pg_hba and
> reloaded it completely. The support for keeping the old one around in
> case of syntax errors is new for 8.4. You'd basically require
> backpatching of large parts of that patch, and that's not going to happen.
>
> //Magnus
Given that we ran into the problem in 8.3.6, how about something like
the attached to apply to it?
- Josh / eggyknap
