On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 03:28:23AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > Bruce,
> Having @include and directory.d-style capabilities for pg_hba.conf *and* > pg_ident.conf would make managing larger environments much better. > There has been some talk about providing those capabilities via tables > in the catalog, but I'm not aware of anyone working on it and it'd > certainly be quite a bit more work than adding include/dir.d options.
Do we want a TODO for this?
If we are assembling a wish-list, I've often wanted the opposite of an include. I want the ability to encapsulate the contents of pg_hba.conf directly into postgresql.conf. So instead of giving a filename to hba_file, optionally give a multi-lined string with some kind of here-doc like mechanism, or something like that.
When I set up a forked dev environment and then eventually want to compare the diverged dev setup back to production, I often forget to compare the pg_hba.conf file.
