Re: Making pg_hba.conf case-insensitive

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 03:01:48PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 8/18/16 1:59 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > o  compares words in columns that can only support keywords as
> > case-insensitive, double-quoted or not
> > 
> > o  compares words in columns that can contain user/db names or keywords
> > as case-sensitive if double-quoted, case-insensitive if not
> 
> I can maybe see the case of the second one, but the first one doesn't
> make sense to me.
> 
> We've in the past had discussions like this about whether command line
> arguments of tools should be case insensitive like SQL, and we had
> resolved that since the shell is not SQL, it shouldn't work like that.
> pg_hba.conf is also not SQL, and neither, for that matter, is
> pg_ident.conf and postgresql.conf.

OK, I am happy to remove the TODO item and see if we get new complaints.

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