| From: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Prabakaran, Vaishnavi" <vaishnavip(at)fast(dot)au(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Providing catalog view to pg_hba.conf file - Patch submission |
| Date: | 2015-03-16 18:11:10 |
| Message-ID: | CAM-w4HMN1Mg9Xawms35grfw7kGPLCn_mtu4d_Le6AQNe3T1E0A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:46 PM, David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Why not just leave the double-quoting requirements intact. An unquoted
> <any> or <sameuser> (etc) would represent the special keyword while the
> quoted version would mean that the name is used literally.
>
For users that would be worse than not quoting. Then if they look up users
they can't say WHERE username =ANY (users). They would have to do
sumersaults like CASE WHEN username = 'all' then '"all"' =ANY (users) else
username =ALL (users).
The whole point of having a view should be that you don't need to know the
syntax rules for pg_hba.conf to interpret the data. If you do then you
might as well just write a parser and read the file.
--
greg
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