Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Robert Treat wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 09:45, Gevik Babakhani wrote: Hello Folks, This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. About the TODO item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL“: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL commands,

Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Gevik Babakhani") writes: > This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. About > the TODO item %Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via > SQL: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL > commands, assuming the settings are saved in an inte

Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Gevik Babakhani
I agree. Security is a good reason to have the pg_bha.conf around. I guess it would make the TODO item a bit harder to develop hence one has to read and write the file to support the future SQL commands too. I also looked at the code for a moment; perhaps using a yacc/lex mechanism would make thing

Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 06 April 2006 09:45, Gevik Babakhani wrote: > Hello Folks, > > This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. > About the TODO item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via > SQL“: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL commands, > assuming the s

Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Gevik Babakhani schrieb: Hello Folks, This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. About the TODO item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL“: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL commands, assuming the settings are saved in an internal table,

Re: [HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Svenne Krap
Gevik Babakhani wrote: This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. About the TODO item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL“: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL commands, assuming the settings are saved in an internal table, what would be th

[HACKERS] About pg_hba.conf

2006-04-06 Thread Gevik Babakhani
Hello Folks, This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me. About the TODO item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL“: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL commands, assuming the settings are saved in an internal table, what would be the need for