Re: Reporting hba lines

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> When debugging strange and complex pg_hba lines, it can often be quite
>> useful to know which line is matching a particular connection that
>> failed for some reason. Because more often than not, it's actually not
>> using the line in pg_hba.conf that's expected.
>
>> The easiest way to do this is to emit an errdetail for the login
>> failure, per this patch.
>
>> Question is - is that leaking information to the client that we
>> shouldn't be leaking?
>
> Yes.
>
>> And if it is, what would be the preferred way to deal with it?
>
> Report to the postmaster log only.  errdetail_log should do.

Oh, I wasn't aware we had that :) You learn something new every day.


> BTW, are you sure that auth_failed is only called in cases where
> an hba line has already been identified?  Even if true today,
> it seems fairly risky to assume that.

It is true today, but yes, it might be safe to guard against it with
something like this?

I also fixed the error message to follow the guidelines better - I think :)

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