On 4/5/20 6:15 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-03-27 15:58, David Steele wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> On 12/27/19 3:22 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it'd be great if this behavior could be implemented
>>>> within the notation, because we could then just set up a
>>>> non-empty default pg_ident.conf with useful behavioral
>>>> examples in the form of prefab maps. In particular, we
>>>> should think about how hard it is to do "I want the default
>>>> behavior plus allow joe to connect as charlie". If the
>>>> default is a one-liner that you can copy and add to,
>>>> that's a lot better than if you have to reverse-engineer
>>>> what to write.
>>>
>>> This direction certainly sounds more appealing to me.
>>
>> Any thoughts on the discussion between Stephen and Tom?
>
> It appears that the whole discussion of what a new default security
> configuration could or should be hasn't really moved to a new consensus,
> so given the time, I think it's best that we leave things as they are
> and continue the exploration at some future time.
Sounds good. I've marked the patch RwF.
Regards,
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-David
david@pgmasters.net
