Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2010-04-14T20:28:44Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> wrote:
> I think it sort of just died.  I'm in favour of making sure we don't
> give out any extra information, so if the objection to the message is
> simply that "no pg_hba.conf entry" is "counterfactual" when there is an
> entry rejecting it, how about:
>   "No pg_hba.conf authorizing entry"
>
> That's no longer counter-factual, and works for both no entry, and a
> rejecting entry...

That works for me.  I don't have strong feelings about it so I'd
probably be OK to a variety of solutions subject to my previous
remarks, but that seems as good as anything.

...Robert