| From: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> |
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| To: | Christoph Dalitz <christoph(dot)dalitz(at)hs-niederrhein(dot)de> |
| Cc: | tlw(at)att(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: tcpip connections.. |
| Date: | 2002-11-21 15:04:34 |
| Message-ID: | m3lm3nhsl9.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com |
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Christoph Dalitz <christoph(dot)dalitz(at)hs-niederrhein(dot)de> writes:
> For some strange reason this is configured via the file
> $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf instead via some table in the system catalog
> (that's what I would have expected).
The reason (for using ph_hba.conf) actually makes sense. ;) If it was
all stored in system catalogs, and you screwed them up and locked
yourself completely out of the database, you'd be in big trouble.
With text files, you can always fix them with an editor.
-Doug
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