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Re: Proposal: new file format for hba/ident/hosts configuration?

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Tristan Partin <tristan@partin.io>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Date: 2026-07-07T23:08:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> It's
> not their problem if we're having issues shoehorning new features
> into the existing format.

(It is, though. Users like new features, and I have yet to meet a user
who's happy that we don't implement reasonable improvements because of
choices made pre-21st-century. The config format has gotten in the way
of recent development, and it's starting to force a bunch of
unpleasant compromises.)

--Jacob