Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Since pg_hba.conf is re-read on every connection, I've always thought
>> it was pretty bogus to bulk it up with that much internal documentation.
> Maybe it should be cached in memory and only be re-read on request
> (SIGHUP). Parsing that file every time is undoubtedly a large fraction of
> the total connection startup time.
Okay with me if someone wants to do it ... but that'd be a lot more work
than just moving the documentation ...
regards, tom lane