Re: Questions on PostGreSQL Authentication mechanism...

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: dipti shah <shahdipti1980(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Questions on PostGreSQL Authentication mechanism...
Date: 2010-02-02 16:23:38
Message-ID: 20100202162338.GB4020@alvh.no-ip.org
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dipti shah escribió:
> Techdb=# show hba_file;
> hba_file
> --------------------------------------
> /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf
> (1 row)
>
> Moreover, is there anyway to view content of this file from stored in above
> location "Techdb" command prompt itself.
>
> Techdb=# cat /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf;

Probably pg_read_file():

select pg_read_file('pg_hba.conf', 0, 8192);

Note that pg_read_file only allows paths relative to $PGDATA, which is
what you get from SHOW data_directory;

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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