Re: pgadmin Windows has no option to edit configuration files...

PgAdminIII did/does have the facility to edit the postgresql.conf & pg_hba.conf.
However, as David G. Johnston pointed out, it was limited to editing _local_ versions
of those files.

>i don't recommend doing this by hand, ...
That statement implies that you feel that using a GUI will protect you from making
errors. That is untrue. If you use a GUI to change the authentication method in the
pg_hba.conf (not to mention other critical parameters), you could easily lock out
many users upon reloading/restart. Likewise, the same applies for changing values
in postgresql.conf. Simply having an easy way to change values does not mean you will
be protected from setting them too high(or wrong). EG: setting work_mem to 1GB will be very bad.It is better to learn and understand WHY you need to change values, than just having
an easy way to do so.

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On Thursday, January 11, 2018, 4:49:47 PM EST, David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 2:35 PM, André Verwijs <dutchgigalo(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

pgadmin Windows has no option to edit configuration files

"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL 10\data\pg_hba.conf"
"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL 10\data\postgresql.conf"

i don't recommend doing this by hand, is it possible to add this option?

​To my understanding pgAdmin is limited to communicating with PostgreSQL via a session - there is no guarantee that the two programs are even on the same machine.  IOW, editing server boot configuration files seems outside of pgAdmin's charter.  Administration of the contents of databases it what is targeted, not getting the server up and running in the first place.  Configuration management tools cover the later.
I suppose it could wrap a UI on top of "ALTER SYSTEM"...
As of now there is no SQL-means to edit pg_hba.conf
​You might need to accept that you are in the minority that those files should not be hand edited - ALTER SYSTEM provides for specialized usage but at the end of the day the desire for UI tools for those two (three: ident) files is pretty limited (at least relative to the cost to develop one).
David J.