Re: replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>If people are happy with Tom's suggestion of using '*' instead of
>>'all' in pg_hba.conf I will prepare a patch for it.
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>Well, while we're breaking stuff in the name of improvement, what about 
>databases named "*" or databases with spaces in their names?
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Good point. Perhaps we need to provide for an escaping mechanism in the 
routines that parse the file, although personally I have little sympathy 
for anyone who names a database '*'. I think it comes into the category 
of "Doctor, it hurts when I do this" ... "Then stop doing that." Spaces 
are a more likely problem, especially when we get W32 native users.

cheers

andrew