| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Parsing of pg_hba.conf and authentication inconsistencies |
| Date: | 2008-08-02 21:38:42 |
| Message-ID: | 20080802213842.GP4321@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> The problem with pg_ctl is that it's indirectly calling postgres, and it
>> doesn't have a lot of a way to know what happened after calling it;
>> consider the mess we have with pg_ctl -w.
>
> True enough but perhaps that is a problem in itself. IMO, we should be
> encouraging people to never touch the postgres binary. If that means
> pg_ctl becomes a lot smarter, then we have to consider that as well.
That's a great idea, but I don't think we should weigh down this idea of
config checking with that responsability. We could discuss solutions to
this problem, but I think it's going to be quite a lot harder than you
seem to think.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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