On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 09:37:23AM +0200, Jim Jones wrote:
> SELECT type, database, user_name, address, c.comment
> FROM pg_hba_file_rules h, pg_read_conf_comments(h.file_name) c
> WHERE user_name[1]='jim' AND h.line_number = c.line_number ;
>
> type | database | user_name | address | comment
> ------+----------+-----------+-----------+---------
> host | {db} | {jim} | 127.0.0.1 | foo
> host | {db} | {jim} | 127.0.0.1 | bar
> host | {db} | {jim} | 127.0.0.1 | #foo#
> (3 rows)
>
>
> Is it more or less what you had in mind?
That was the idea. I forgot about strpos(), but if you do that, do we
actually need a function in core to achieve that? There are a few
fancy cases with the SQL function you have sent, actually.. strpos()
would grep the first '#' character, ignoring quoted areas.
--
Michael