It can sometimes be useful to match against a superuser in pg_hba.conf.
For example, one could imagine wanting to reject nonsuperuser from a
particular database.
This used to be possible by creating an empty role and matching against
that, but that functionality was removed (a long time ago) by commit
94cd0f1ad8a.
Adding another keyword can break backwards compatibility, of course. So
that is an issue that needs to be discussed, but I don't imagine too
many people are using role names "superuser" and "nonsuperuser". Those
who are will have to quote them.
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