On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2015-03-31 14:38 GMT+02:00 Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>:
>>
>> keyword_databases - The database name can be "all", "replication",
>> sameuser", "samerole" and "samegroup".
>> keyword_roles - The role can be "all" and a group name prefixed with "+".
>
>
> I am not very happy about name - but I have no better idea :( - maybe
> "database_mask", "user_mask"
>
How about database_keywords and user_keywords as column names?
>>
>>
>> The rest of the database and role names are treated as normal database
>> and role names.
>>
>> 2. Added the code changes to identify the names with quoted.
>
>
> Is it a good idea? Database's names are not quoted every else (in system
> catalog). So now, we cannot to use join to this view.
>
> postgres=# select (databases)[1] from pg_hba_conf ;
> databases
> -----------
> "omega 2"
>
> (4 rows)
>
> postgres=# select datname from pg_database ;
> datname
> -----------
> template1
> template0
> postgres
> omega 2
> (4 rows)
>
> I dislike this - we know, so the name must be quoted in file (without it,
> the file was incorrect). And if you need quotes, there is a function
> quote_ident. If we use quotes elsewhere, then it should be ok, bot not now.
> Please, remove it. More, it is not necessary, when you use a "keyword"
> columns.
Thanks. The special handling of quotes for pg_hba_conf is not required.
I will keep the behaviour similar to the other catalog tables.
I will remove the quote support in the next version.
Regards,
Hari Babu
Fujitsu Australia
