Re: Patch proposal: make use of regular expressions for the username in pg_hba.conf

From: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jacob Champion <jchampion(at)timescale(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch proposal: make use of regular expressions for the username in pg_hba.conf
Date: 2022-10-19 07:50:45
Message-ID: 531b1394-bdb3-8b81-715c-c5bb49d0369f@gmail.com
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Hi,

On 10/19/22 3:18 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 09:14:21AM +0200, Drouvot, Bertrand wrote:
>> BTW, what about adding a new TAP test (dedicated patch) to test the behavior
>> in case of errors during the regexes compilation in pg_ident.conf and
>> pg_hba.conf (not done yet)? (we could add it once this patch series is
>> done).
>
> Perhaps, that may become tricky when it comes to -DEXEC_BACKEND (for
> cases where no fork() implementation is available, aka Windows). But
> a postmaster restart failure would generate logs that could be picked
> for a pattern check?

Right, that's how I'd see it. I'll give it a look.

Regards,

--
Bertrand Drouvot
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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