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From Christoph Berg
Subject Re: [TODO] Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive
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Msg-id 20140716171058.GC3091@msg.df7cb.de
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In response to [TODO] Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive  (Viswanatham kirankumar <viswanatham.kirankumar@huawei.com>)
Responses Re: [TODO] Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: Viswanatham kirankumar 2014-07-16 <EC867DEF52699D4189B584A14BAA7C2165440538@blreml504-mbx.china.huawei.com>
> Attached patch is implementing following TODO item
> Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive
> 
>   *   More robust pg_hba.conf parsing/error
logging<http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg00432.php>

Hmm. I see a case for accepting "ALL" (as in hosts.allow(5)), so +1 on
that, but I don't think the other keywords like "host" and "peer"
should be valid in upper case.

Possibly things like "MD5" and "GSSAPI" are naturally spelled in upper
case, but I have my doubts about the rest.

Christoph
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