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Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-04-20T00:11:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Hmm. The AV launcher is only permitted to touch pg_database.

> Perhaps we should add a TODO.

Actually, while I'm looking at that code, a more immediate TODO is
"fix walsender".  Somebody has inserted an absolutely flight-of-fantasy
code path into InitPostgres.  (Hint: template1 can be dropped.
ESPECIALLY when you're deliberately not taking any lock on it.)

			regards, tom lane