Re: Adding an example for replication configuration to pg_hba.conf
Selena Deckelmann <selena@chesnok.com>
From: Selena Deckelmann <selena@chesnok.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-19T14:44:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Attachments
- pg_hba_bikeshed3.patch (application/octet-stream) patch
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. -selena -- http://chesnok.com