On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:28:42AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Joshua Tolley wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:43:55AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> So. I've updated the comment, and applied your patch. Thanks! > > > > What would it take to get it applied to a few earlier versions as well? > > I guess you maintaining your own fork? ;-) > > > Simply put, earlier versions threw away the contents of pg_hba and > reloaded it completely. The support for keeping the old one around in > case of syntax errors is new for 8.4. You'd basically require > backpatching of large parts of that patch, and that's not going to happen. > > //Magnus
Given that we ran into the problem in 8.3.6, how about something like the attached to apply to it? - Josh / eggyknap
Index: postmaster.c
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v
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< load_hba();
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> if (access(HbaFileName, R_OK) == 0)
> {
> load_hba();
> }
> else
> {
> ereport(WARNING,
> (errmsg("HBA file %s is unreadable, not reloading", HbaFileName)));
> }
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