Re: Proposal: new file format for hba/ident/hosts configuration? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jacob Champion
Subject Re: Proposal: new file format for hba/ident/hosts configuration?
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Msg-id CAOYmi+mTwUcrdV6LTv3OfQca3qTWso=Z21eVzU8cHo7wmr++vQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Proposal: new file format for hba/ident/hosts configuration?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> It's
> not their problem if we're having issues shoehorning new features
> into the existing format.

(It is, though. Users like new features, and I have yet to meet a user
who's happy that we don't implement reasonable improvements because of
choices made pre-21st-century. The config format has gotten in the way
of recent development, and it's starting to force a bunch of
unpleasant compromises.)

--Jacob



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