Re: Remote administration functionality

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Dave Page wrote:
> 
> >>The problem is, pg_hba.conf might be editted via the OS unlike the text
> >>version of pg_shadow which is only editted via the server, which would
> >>make appropriate locking nigh-on impossible afaics.
> >>
> >>Unless you're advocating only allowing pg_hba modifications via the
> >>server, in which case it must be started in default configuration before
> >>any mods can be made. That doesn't seem like a good idea to me :-(
> > 
> > 
> > I am thinking we will need load_pg_hba() and write_pg_hba() that will
> > load and write the table to pg_hba.conf.
> 
> Isn't the pg_hba.conf situation quite the same as postgresql.conf? The 
> GUCs with pg_settings is the GUC like a table, but with comments that 
> exceed config_generic.long_desc.

Well, pg_hba.conf is ordered, which is different, and it more of a
columnar values that postgresql.conf.

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