Re: Adding an example for replication configuration to pg_hba.conf

Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>

From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Selena Deckelmann <selena@chesnok.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-19T15:09:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Selena Deckelmann <selena@chesnok.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> Excerpts from Greg Smith's message of mié may 18 23:07:13 -0400 2011:
>>> Two things that could be changed from this example to make it more useful:
>>
>>> -The default database is based on your user name, which is postgres in
>>> most packaged builds but not if you compile your own.  I don't know
>>> whether it's practical to consider substituting that into this file, or
>>> if it's just enough to mention that as an additional doc comment.
>>
>> You mean the default username, not the default database, but yeah; so do
>> we need a @default_username@ token to be replaced by initdb with
>> whatever it has as effective_user?  (In this case the patch is no longer
>> 2 lines, but still should be trivial enough).
>
> That would be nice. So, we just add that token to initdb? Seems simple.
>
> I added some explanation of the all vs replication bit in the header comments.
>
> Revision attached.

Looks good to me.

As I mentioned offlist, I'd like it in teal please.


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