Re: control pg_hba.conf via SQL

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:43:31AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> A.M. wrote:
> >Could postgres offer at least a read-only view of the data in the
> >interim? Ordering could be controlled by line number.
>
> You can get the contents as a single text field like this:
>
> | select pg_read_file|('pg_hba.conf', 0, 50*1024);
>
> Writing a plperl function that would strip comments and blank lines
> and return the rest as a numbered set of lines would be fairly
> trivial.

You don't even need PL/Perl :)

SELECT * FROM (
SELECT
s.t AS "Ordering",
(string_to_array(pg_read_file(
'pg_hba.conf',
0,
(pg_stat_file('pg_hba.conf')).size
), '\n'))[s.t] AS "Line"
FROM
generate_series(
1,
array_upper(
string_to_array(pg_read_file(
'pg_hba.conf',
0,
(pg_stat_file('pg_hba.conf')).size
), '\n'),
1
)
) AS s(t)
) AS foo
WHERE
"Line" !~ '^#'
AND
"Line" !~ '^\s*$'
;

Cheers,
D
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