Re: replace all with * in pg_hba.conf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>>The minimal disturbance change might be to teach the parser to
>>>distinguish between a quoted 'all' and an unquoted 'all', and forget the
>>>'*' idea.
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>>Probably we ought to go with that, on backwards-compatibility grounds.
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>why not do both, but deprecate the use of all in the docs?  say with an
>eventual goal of removing the use of all altogether in 2 releases?
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The extra value is fairly low IMNSHO if we can distinguish between a 
magical and a non-magical 'all' - see the patch I just submitted.

cheers

andrew