Re: control pg_hba.conf via SQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
>  If your pg_hba.conf looks like
>     host    all    all    0.0.0.0/32    md5
> there's not much call to update it dynamically ...
>
>   


There'll be a call to update it once - to 0.0.0.0/0 ;-)

I guess you proved the point about how easy it is the get wrong ;-)    


(sorry, couldn't resist)


But it's not clear to me why a CONNECT right shouldn't encompass all the things that hba does, i.e. connect method,
sourceaddress and auth method.
 



cheers

andrew