Re: Should database = all in pg_hba.conf match a replication connection?

On Apr 20, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I spent a fair amount of time just now being confused about why
> pg_hba.conf restrictions on replication connections didn't seem to be
> getting enforced. After looking at the code, I realize that my entry
> with database = "replication" was indeed getting rejected as not
> matching, but then the hba code was falling through and matching an
> entry with database = "all". This is not the behavior I expected
> after
> looking at the docs; the docs seem to imply that SR connections must
> match an explicit replication entry in pg_hba.conf in order to
> succeed.
>
> Should we change this? It seems to me to be a good thing on security
> grounds if replication connections can't be made through a generic
> pg_hba entry.

+1.

...Robert