Re: Allow continuations in "pg_hba.conf" files

Hello,

> FWIW, I don't think so. Generally a trailing backspace is an escape
> character for the following newline.  And '\ ' is a escaped space,
> which is usualy menas a space itself.
>
> In this case escape character doesn't work generally and I think it is 
> natural that a backslash in the middle of a line is a backslash 
> character itself.

I concur: The backslash char is only a continuation as the very last 
character of the line, before cr/nl line ending markers.

There are no assumption about backslash escaping, quotes and such, which 
seems reasonable given the lexing structure of the files, i.e. records of 
space-separated words, and # line comments.

-- 
Fabien.