Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> cases where people are modifying the wrong hba file. Can we show >> the source text of the hba line?
> We don't currently keep the full source text around - but we certainly > could do that if we wanted to. If we're concerned about providing a message like this, I think it'd be well worthwhile. We presumably would only store the active lines not comment lines, so the extra memory space would be negligible in just about any real use-case. > I'm not sure how much it helps - usually, you're going to end up on a > line that's completely irrelevant if you get the wrong hba file (e.g. > a comment or a line that's not even in the file at all due to size). Only if you count accurately, and aren't fooled into miscounting by the expectation that you must arrive on a non-comment line. I don't buy the "the editor can do it for you" argument either, at least not since noticing that recent versions of emacs don't count lines the way I do. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers