Re: Ticket 298: bug on pg_hba.conf editor

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Ticket 298: bug on pg_hba.conf editor
Date: 2011-07-18 12:50:26
Message-ID: CA+OCxoxRGrp_X-rJ3089uGxJfrVk0TGH+7KBabc4gXP8zKem2Q@mail.gmail.com
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Thanks.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 09:41 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 11:30 +0200, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 10:12 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> >> > On Saturday, July 16, 2011, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>> >> > > On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 21:11 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> >> > >> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>> >> > >> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>> >> > >> > Hi,
>> >> > >> >
>> >> > >> > I worked a bit this morning on this bug. The editor was made in a way
>> >> > >> > that invalid configuration lines are not displayed which is wrong
>> >> > >> > because you can't fix a line if you stored it wrong once.
>> >> > >> >
>> >> > >> > So I did the change to allow the change of an invalid configuration
>> >> > >> > line, and that works well.
>> >> > >> >
>> >> > >> > But I now have many other lines that aren't supposed to appear:
>> >> > >> >
>> >> > >> > # local      DATABASE  USER  METHOD  [OPTIONS]
>> >> > >> > # host       DATABASE  USER  ADDRESS  METHOD  [OPTIONS]
>> >> > >> > # hostssl    DATABASE  USER  ADDRESS  METHOD  [OPTIONS]
>> >> > >> > # hostnossl  DATABASE  USER  ADDRESS  METHOD  [OPTIONS]
>> >> > >> > # host name, or it is
>> >> > >> >
>> >> > >> > All are considered comments, and all have a valid first column, so all
>> >> > >> > are displayed. Which is a bit disturbing because they are part of the
>> >> > >> > comments in pg_hba.conf, they are not supposed to be "actual" lines.
>> >> > >> >
>> >> > >> > So, they match our process of identifiying lines, and so they are
>> >> > >> > displayed. Do you have any idea how we could not display these? I mean,
>> >> > >> > I can simply add a check on the line string to see if they are equal to
>> >> > >> > the one of the five strings above, but it seems quite a ugly hack.
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> Why don't we just ignore anything that starts with a # ?
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Because we need to guess which comment is an actual comment and which
>> >> > > comment is a disabled configuration. That allows us to hide actual
>> >> > > comments, and show disabled configuration. Problem is that our guess is
>> >> > > wrong sometimes.
>> >> >
>> >> > Sounds like you're trying to be too clever.
>> >>
>> >> I'm not. That's what the code already does since quite a long time.
>> >> Problem is it doesn't show lines that are enabled and invalid. And if I
>> >> try to show invalid lines, it shows even ones I don't want.
>> >>
>> >> Hmmm, thinking now that I could show invalid but enabled lines, and not
>> >> invalid and disabled lines.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I've commited this one. Seems to work fine.
>>
>> Seems pretty broken on Windows unfortunately:
>>
>> 1>Generating svnversion.h for revision REL-1_14_0-BETA3-12-gc047d65.
>> 1>Compiling...
>> 1>dlgColumn.cpp
>> 1>c:\users\dpage\documents\pgadmin3-1.14\pgadmin\dlg\dlgcolumn.cpp(595)
>> : error C2509: 'GetTypeOid' : member function not declared in
>> 'dlgColumn'
>> 1>        c:\users\dpage\documents\pgadmin3\pgadmin\include\dlg\dlgcolumn.h(21)
>> : see declaration of 'dlgColumn'
>> 1>dlgHbaConfig.cpp
>> 1>dlgProperty.cpp
>> 1>dlgTable.cpp
>> 1>c:\users\dpage\documents\pgadmin3-1.14\pgadmin\dlg\dlgtable.cpp(1894)
>> : error C2660: 'dlgTypeProperty::GetTypeOid' : function does not take
>> 0 arguments
>> 1>frmHbaConfig.cpp
>> 1>c:\users\dpage\documents\pgadmin3-1.14\pgadmin\frm\frmhbaconfig.cpp(175)
>> : error C2039: 'isValid' : is not a member of 'pgHbaConfigLine'
>> 1>        c:\users\dpage\documents\pgadmin3\pgadmin\include\utils\pgconfig.h(59)
>> : see declaration of 'pgHbaConfigLine'
>> 1>c:\users\dpage\documents\pgadmin3-1.14\pgadmin\frm\frmhbaconfig.cpp(175)
>> : error C2039: 'isValid' : is not a member of 'pgHbaConfigLine'
>> 1>        c:\users\dpage\documents\pgadmin3\pgadmin\include\utils\pgconfig.h(59)
>> : see declaration of 'pgHbaConfigLine'
>> 1>pgColumn.cpp
>> 1>pgconfig.cpp
>> 1>c:\users\dpage\documents\pgadmin3-1.14\pgadmin\utils\pgconfig.cpp(390)
>> : error C2065: 'isValid' : undeclared identifier
>> 1>c:\users\dpage\documents\pgadmin3-1.14\pgadmin\utils\pgconfig.cpp(399)
>> : error C2065: 'isValid' : undeclared identifier
>> 1>c:\users\dpage\documents\pgadmin3-1.14\pgadmin\utils\pgconfig.cpp(510)
>> : error C2065: 'isValid' : undeclared identifier
>>
>> Please fix!
>>
>
> Will do this evening.
>
>
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