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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: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-04-14T22:46:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> wrote:
>> I think it sort of just died. I'm in favour of making sure we don't
>> give out any extra information, so if the objection to the message is
>> simply that "no pg_hba.conf entry" is "counterfactual" when there is an
>> entry rejecting it, how about:
>>  "No pg_hba.conf authorizing entry"
>> 
>> That's no longer counter-factual, and works for both no entry, and a
>> rejecting entry...

> That works for me.

It needs copy-editing.  Maybe
	no pg_hba.conf entry allows access for host ... user ...

			regards, tom lane