Re: Providing catalog view to pg_hba.conf file - Patch submission

<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br />On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Haribabu Kommi <<a
href="mailto:kommi.haribabu@gmail.com">kommi.haribabu@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br />><br />> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015
at9:47 AM, Jim Nasby <<a href="mailto:Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com">Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com</a>> wrote:<br />>
>On 1/27/15 1:04 AM, Haribabu Kommi wrote:<br />> >><br />> >> Here I attached the latest version
ofthe patch.<br />> >> I will add this patch to the next commitfest.<br />> ><br />> ><br />>
>Apologies if this was covered, but why isn't the IP address an inet instead<br />> > of text?<br />><br
/>>Corrected the address type as inet instead of text. updated patch is attached.<br />><br />> > Also,
whathappens if someone reloads the config in the middle of running<br />> > the SRF?<br />><br />> hba
entriesare reloaded only in postmaster process, not in every backend.<br />> So there shouldn't be any problem with
configfile reload. Am i<br />> missing something?<br />><br /><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">I don't have
anycomment to disagree with the patch (idea and code).<br /></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /></div><div
class="gmail_extra">ButI'm thinking about this patch and would not be interesting to have a FDW to manipulate the hba
file?Imagine if we are able to manipulate the HBA file using INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE.<br /></div><div
class="gmail_extra"><br/></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,<br /></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br />--<br
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