Re: pg_hba_lookup function to get all matching pg_hba.conf entries

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_hba_lookup function to get all matching pg_hba.conf entries
Date: 2015-12-04 16:41:13
Message-ID: CAFj8pRC5zbkUMUf=y4fS8Of3qv4nVuAJBjn6MEjJYa+=Yem3mw@mail.gmail.com
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2015-12-04 17:34 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:

> Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
> > It should be disabled by default
> >
> > only when you have some problems, then you can enable it
>
> That still seems mostly unworkable to me. Are we going to tell DBAs to
> set PGOPTIONS when they have some pg_hba problem?
>

why not - it isn't bad idea.

>
> What's the issue with calling the function when you want to research
> some problem? Presumably that's the whole point of the function.
>

sometimes you shouldn't set real parameters - I had to solve some issues
with IP6/IP4 - and I missed debug info on server side.

Regards

Pavel

>
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