Re: replace all with * in pg_hba.conf

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>>>why not do both, but deprecate the use of all in the docs?  say with an
>>>eventual goal of removing the use of all altogether in 2 releases?
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>>The extra value is fairly low IMNSHO if we can distinguish between a 
>>magical and a non-magical 'all' - see the patch I just submitted.
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>Also, your point about the special sameuser and samegroup keywords is a
>good one.  We should make those all work consistently (ie, quoting makes
>it not a keyword).  Going in the "*" direction would only make sense
>if that were the only special case --- but it isn't.  I don't think we
>want to start choosing random symbols for sameuser, samegroup, and other
>stuff we might think of in future.
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Right. Revised patch sent to patches list.

cheers

andrew