Re: Providing catalog view to pg_hba.conf file - Patch submission - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Providing catalog view to pg_hba.conf file - Patch submission
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Msg-id CA+TgmobtP9Lh20=RpJY0QyKQtm6fj-SndPMxyBNuXowZ8kpKAA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Providing catalog view to pg_hba.conf file - Patch submission  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:46 PM, David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not just leave the double-quoting requirements intact.  An unquoted
> <any> or <sameuser> (etc) would represent the special keyword while the
> quoted version would mean that the name is used literally.

That would be OK with me, I think.

> I'm not totally opposed to using some other quoting symbol to represent
> keywords as well - like "*" (e.g., *all*).  Like Greg, I'm not to keen on
> the idea of adding additional keyword columns.

We probably should not use one quoting convention in the file and
another in the view.

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Robert Haas
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