Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection
Date: 2010-04-20 00:11:31
Message-ID: 10655.1271722291@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Hmm. The AV launcher is only permitted to touch pg_database.

> Perhaps we should add a TODO.

Actually, while I'm looking at that code, a more immediate TODO is
"fix walsender". Somebody has inserted an absolutely flight-of-fantasy
code path into InitPostgres. (Hint: template1 can be dropped.
ESPECIALLY when you're deliberately not taking any lock on it.)

regards, tom lane

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