Re: Including kerberos realm

Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Not that this affects me in any way, but should there be a GUC variable
>>> to set the default behavior system-wide?
> 
>> I thought about that, but I don't want to add extra gucs without a good
>> reason. You'd typically not have very many different lines in pg_hba for
>> this, and just duplicating the parameter there would be ok I think.
> 
>> I'd rather move more of the krb parameters to be *just* in pg_hba.conf,
>> but for now I left those in postgresql.conf as fallbacks..
> 
> If you think those parameters would make more sense in pg_hba.conf,
> let's just move them and be done with it.  There has never been any
> intention that administrator-only GUCs would be promised compatible
> across versions.  And the GUC mechanism is really rather a lot of
> overhead compared to options on a pg_hba line ...

Well, it does make sense to have defaults in postgresql.conf - but I
don't think it's worth the overhead.

I'll commit the stuff I have for now and put it on my TODO to remove
them completely from postgresql.conf later. I'll see if I have time to
get it done for 8.4.

//Magnus