Excerpts from Pavel Stehule's message of mar jun 28 16:19:02 -0400 2011:
> there should be a format (syntax) error. If somebody breaks a pg_ident
> and will do a reload, then all ident mapping is lost.
No, the file is not actually parsed until the auth verification runs.
The incorrect tokens are happily stored in memory by the tokeniser. In
my view that's the wrong way to do it, but changing it seems to be a
lot of work (I didn't try).
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