Re: Remote administration functionality

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remote administration functionality
Date: 2005-08-01 08:17:21
Message-ID: 42EDDA91.90901@pse-consulting.de
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:

>>The problem is, pg_hba.conf might be editted via the OS unlike the text
>>version of pg_shadow which is only editted via the server, which would
>>make appropriate locking nigh-on impossible afaics.
>>
>>Unless you're advocating only allowing pg_hba modifications via the
>>server, in which case it must be started in default configuration before
>>any mods can be made. That doesn't seem like a good idea to me :-(
>
>
> I am thinking we will need load_pg_hba() and write_pg_hba() that will
> load and write the table to pg_hba.conf.

Isn't the pg_hba.conf situation quite the same as postgresql.conf? The
GUCs with pg_settings is the GUC like a table, but with comments that
exceed config_generic.long_desc.

Regards,
Andreas

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