Re: "cert" + clientcert=verify-ca in pg_hba.conf?

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 03:41:40PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 04:09:25PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> > At Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:36:50 -0400, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote in 
> > bruce> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 06:13:23PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> > > > At Tue, 25 Aug 2020 22:52:44 -0400, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote in 
> > > > > > Because we think we need any named value for every alternatives
> > > > > > including the default value?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Well, not putting clientcert at all gives the default behavior, so why
> > > > > have clientcert=no-verify?
> > > > 
> > > > clientcert=verify-ca or verify-full don't allow absence of client
> > > > certificate. We need an option to allow the absence.
> > > 
> > > Isn't the option not specifying clientcert?  Here are some valid
> > > pg_hba.conf lines:
> > 
> > Sorry for the ambiguity. Perhaps I understand that we talked at
> > different objects.  I was mentioning about the option value that is
> > stored *internally*, concretely the values for the struct member
> > port->hba->clientcert. You are talking about the descriptive option in
> > pg_hba.conf.

Yes, I realize we need an internal vaue for this, but it doesn't need to
be visible to the user.

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