Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Magnus Hagander wrote: >> Might still be worth adding "--ident" as a parameter anyway, but in that >> case only to help the distros that need it. Or not, because they already >> have a way to deal with it.
> I think --ident would be very helpful, and we know with OS's support > ident too. If we're going to be doing sed-like substitutions on pg_hba.conf.sample, then we really really wanna discourage distros from hacking the sample file directly, because that could break the sed results. So I think it's important to provide the switch. I was toying with the notion of a different editing mechanism though, so that initdb could emit a pg_hba.conf containing comments that are actually pertinent to the selected behavior. One simple way would be to prefix each line with a keyword to select when to emit it: ALWAYS this text is always emitted NEVER this text is never emitted (a meta-comment) TRUST this text is emitted if we're selecting TRUST mode IDENT this text is emitted if we're selecting IDENT mode etc. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match