Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on the location of configuration files
Date: 2001-12-24 03:43:59
Message-ID: 6391.1009165439@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Well, the problem with backward compatibility here is that now we have
> pg_hba.conf to configure some part of local authentication and
> postgresql.conf to configure the other part.

Seems a pretty empty argument. pg_ident.conf also (now) bears on local
authentication, as does any random secondary-password file the user
might select. Shall we find a way to smush all that into pg_hba.conf?

> Aren't the socket permissions best dealt with in pg_hba.conf?

Maybe if we were designing the whole thing from scratch, it'd be cleaner
to do it that way ... but it doesn't seem enough cleaner to justify
creating a compatibility issue.

regards, tom lane

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