Re: [TODO] Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christoph Berg
Subject Re: [TODO] Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive
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Msg-id 20140723083709.GA18557@msg.df7cb.de
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In response to Re: [TODO] Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive  (Viswanatham kirankumar <viswanatham.kirankumar@huawei.com>)
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Re: Viswanatham kirankumar 2014-07-23 <EC867DEF52699D4189B584A14BAA7C21654422EB@blreml504-mbx.china.huawei.com>
> 3) Host name is not a SQL object so it will be treated as case-sensitive 
>    except for all, samehost, samenet are considered as keywords. 
>    For these user need to use quotes to differentiate between hostname and keywords.

DNS is case-insensitive, though most of the time case-preserving
(nothing guarantees that it won't down-up-whatever-case the answer you
get).

(FTR, I'll retract my original complaint, the idea of using SQL-like
case folding is nice.)

Christoph
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