Re: Remote administration functionality

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.

Regards,
Andreas