Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> A point that I don't think has been made so far in the thread: the >>> only place the postmaster could complain in event of problems is the >>> postmaster log, which we know too well isn't watched by inexperienced >>> DBAs. I guarantee you that we will get bug reports along the lines of >>> "I updated pg_hba.conf and did pg_ctl reload, but nothing changed! >>> Postgres sucks!" if we implement checking at load time. > >> How is this different from how we deal with postgresql.conf today? > > It isn't, and I seem to recall we've had that scenario play out a couple > times already for postgresql.conf changes. But pg_hba.conf is far more > complex than "variable = value" ...
Ok, then I didn't misunderstand that part at least :-) Ah, well. I know that if others don't pipe in on my side of it, I'm implicitly out-voted ;), since I've stated my case by now... Thus, I won't put any time into working on it unless someone does. //Magnus -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
