Re: Making pg_hba.conf case-insensitive

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Making pg_hba.conf case-insensitive
Date: 2016-08-18 18:06:39
Message-ID: 15440.1471543599@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> I was looking at this TODO item from 2009:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4AA7B197.70002%40usit.uio.no
> I have implemented this in the attached patch. It does two things:

Is there really enough demand for this to justify subtle breakage
of existing pg_hba.conf entries? It'd probably have been fine if
we did it like that originally, but I think it's a bit late now.

Also, why strcasecmp and not pg_strcasecmp? The former is going
to induce misbehavior in e.g. Turkish locales.

regards, tom lane

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