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

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 09:26, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:

> The same problem also exists in pg_hba.conf. It's because I introduced
> new keyword "replication" in pg_hba.conf to authenticate the standby
> server. This restriction is not acceptable? If so, I'd need to consider
> an authentication configuration for replication again: introduce new
> configuration file? just change the keyword name to "unpopular" one?...

I certainly think there are a lot of installations out there with a
database named "replication". That doesn't mean it's unacceptable
though.

However, wouldn't it make more logical sense to replace "host/hostssl"
with "replication/replicationssl" rather than overload the database
field?


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