Hi Robert, Hi Tom, Thanks for the feedback!
On 05.10.23 00:55, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> You're probably not going to like this answer very much, but this >> doesn't seem particularly worthwhile to me. > Yeah, I was unconvinced about the number of use-cases too. > As you say, some support from other potential users could convince > me otherwise, but right now the evidence seems thin. Most likely I am one of the very few using comments to sort of semantically annotate pg_hba entries :) >> The argument for this >> feature is not that this information needs to exist, but that it needs >> to be queryable from within PostgreSQL. > Not only that, but that it needs to be accessible via the > pg_hba_file_rules view. Superusers could already see the > pg_hba file's contents via pg_read_file(). That's my current strategy. I will keep doing that :) > Again, that's not an argument that this is a bad idea. > But it's an answer that would likely satisfy some fraction > of whatever potential users are out there, which makes the > question of how many use-cases really exist even more > pressing. > > regards, tom lane I'll withdraw the CF entry, since the feature didn't seem to resonate with other users. Thanks again for the feedback. Best, Jim