Re: replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: replace all with * in pg_hba.conf
Date: 2003-12-19 15:42:08
Message-ID: 3FE31C50.9060001@dunslane.net
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>>The minimal disturbance change might be to teach the parser to
>>>distinguish between a quoted 'all' and an unquoted 'all', and forget the
>>>'*' idea.
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>>Probably we ought to go with that, on backwards-compatibility grounds.
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>why not do both, but deprecate the use of all in the docs? say with an
>eventual goal of removing the use of all altogether in 2 releases?
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The extra value is fairly low IMNSHO if we can distinguish between a
magical and a non-magical 'all' - see the patch I just submitted.

cheers

andrew

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