Re: Providing catalog view to pg_hba.conf file - Patch submission

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Prabakaran, Vaishnavi" <vaishnavip(at)fast(dot)au(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Providing catalog view to pg_hba.conf file - Patch submission
Date: 2015-03-16 18:08:23
Message-ID: CA+TgmobtP9Lh20=RpJY0QyKQtm6fj-SndPMxyBNuXowZ8kpKAA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:46 PM, David G. Johnston
<david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Why not just leave the double-quoting requirements intact. An unquoted
> <any> or <sameuser> (etc) would represent the special keyword while the
> quoted version would mean that the name is used literally.

That would be OK with me, I think.

> I'm not totally opposed to using some other quoting symbol to represent
> keywords as well - like "*" (e.g., *all*). Like Greg, I'm not to keen on
> the idea of adding additional keyword columns.

We probably should not use one quoting convention in the file and
another in the view.

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Robert Haas
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