From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Making pg_hba.conf case-insensitive |
Date: | 2016-08-20 17:43:58 |
Message-ID: | 20160820174358.GC21840@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 04:49:04PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 03:01:48PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On 8/18/16 1:59 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > o compares words in columns that can only support keywords as
> > > case-insensitive, double-quoted or not
> > >
> > > o compares words in columns that can contain user/db names or keywords
> > > as case-sensitive if double-quoted, case-insensitive if not
> >
> > I can maybe see the case of the second one, but the first one doesn't
> > make sense to me.
> >
> > We've in the past had discussions like this about whether command line
> > arguments of tools should be case insensitive like SQL, and we had
> > resolved that since the shell is not SQL, it shouldn't work like that.
> > pg_hba.conf is also not SQL, and neither, for that matter, is
> > pg_ident.conf and postgresql.conf.
>
> OK, I am happy to remove the TODO item and see if we get new complaints.
TODO item removed.
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