Re: Proposal: new file format for hba/ident/hosts configuration? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Daniel Gustafsson
Subject Re: Proposal: new file format for hba/ident/hosts configuration?
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Msg-id 21FABBDE-07F9-409B-A0AE-6C5052BB96D7@yesql.se
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In response to Re: Proposal: new file format for hba/ident/hosts configuration?  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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> On 11 Jul 2026, at 14:43, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:

> just jumping to a new format is going to create a world of pain for users. We'd need to carry the old format for a
whileas well, I think, 

Agreed, I don't think anyone is suggesting we migrate formats in a release.
Making sure that existing configurations continue to work, either as
one-or-the-other or with a new config as additive to the old, until converted
will be very important.

> and also provide some conversion tools.

+1

> I do agree that sometimes the formats can make expressiveness very clumsy.

+1

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Daniel Gustafsson




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