Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > My next thought is ALTER SYSTEM support for pg_hba.conf, especially > since that would make it easier to do a formal test of Haribabu's > pg_hba view patch by adding each of the options one by one and then > juggling them.
It's quite unclear from this spec what you have in mind to control the entry order. Also, I'd personally be -1 on inventing a pile of new SQL keywords for this. Why not do it with a function, instead? Or for extra credit, finish the pg_hba view work first and then make it an updatable view. > ....and we can then have a nice simple > ALTER SYSTEM ENABLE REMOTE ACCESS FOR REPLICATION USING md5; I am minus a lot more than 1 on inventing a new SQL statement every time somebody thinks of a new way in which they'd like to frob pg_hba.conf. 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