Re: Allow continuations in "pg_hba.conf" files

At Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:20:12 +0000, David Zhang <david(dot)zhang(at)highgo(dot)ca> wrote in
> Hi Fabien,
> Should we consider the case "\ ", i.e. one or more spaces after the backslash?
> For example, if I replace a user map
> "mymap /^(.*)@mydomain\.com$ \1" with
> "mymap /^(.*)@mydomain\.com$ \ "
> "\1"
> by adding one extra space after the backslash, then I got the pg_role="\\"
> but I think what we expect is pg_role="\\1"

FWIW, I don't think so. Generally a trailing backspace is an escape
character for the following newline. And '\ ' is a escaped space,
which is usualy menas a space itself.

In this case escape character doesn't work generally and I think it is
natural that a backslash in the middle of a line is a backslash
character itself.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center