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Re: 'replication' keyword on .pgpass (Streaming Replication)

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-07T12:44:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Magnus Hagander wrote:
> However, wouldn't it make more logical sense to replace "host/hostssl"
> with "replication/replicationssl" rather than overload the database
> field?

It makes more sense to me to overload the database field. When you
connect for replication, you're not connecting to any particular
database, but to a special walsender mode.

Note that 'local' makes sense for replication too; you can connect for
replication via a Unix-domain socket. Replication isn't a connection
method like host/hostssl/local are.

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