Re: Allow file inclusion in pg_hba and pg_ident files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 09:44:58AM -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 12:59:59PM +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
>> 0001 adds a new pg_ident_file_mappings view, which is basically the same as
>> pg_hba_file_rules view but for mappings.  It's probably already useful, for
>> instance if you need to tweak some regexp.
>
> This seems reasonable.

Interesting.  One can note that hba.c is already large, and this makes
the file larger.  I'd like to think that it would be better to move
all the code related to the SQL functions for pg_hba.conf and such to
a new hbafuncs.c under adt/.  Would that make sense?
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Michael