Thread: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Don't make "replication" magical as a user name, only as a datab

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> Don't make "replication" magical as a user name, only as a database name, in pg_hba.conf.

Is it worth backporting this change to 9.0?

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

On 04/10/2011 09:47 PM, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  wrote:
>> Don't make "replication" magical as a user name, only as a database name, in pg_hba.conf.
> Is it worth backporting this change to 9.0?
>
>

I didn't because it's a behaviour change, but arguably it's just us 
being ever so slightly more permissive, and nothing that now works would 
change in any way, so we possibly could.

cheers

andrew

On 04/10/2011 10:17 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> On 04/10/2011 09:47 PM, Fujii Masao wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  
>> wrote:
>>> Don't make "replication" magical as a user name, only as a database 
>>> name, in pg_hba.conf.
>> Is it worth backporting this change to 9.0?
>>
>>
>
> I didn't because it's a behaviour change, but arguably it's just us 
> being ever so slightly more permissive, and nothing that now works 
> would change in any way, so we possibly could.
>
>

Well, nobody seems to be very fussed about this idea, so unless someone 
objects I'll do this in 24 hours.

cheers

andrew