Re: [TODO] Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive

From: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>
To: Viswanatham kirankumar <viswanatham(dot)kirankumar(at)huawei(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [TODO] Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive
Date: 2014-07-16 17:10:58
Message-ID: 20140716171058.GC3091@msg.df7cb.de
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Re: Viswanatham kirankumar 2014-07-16 <EC867DEF52699D4189B584A14BAA7C2165440538(at)blreml504-mbx(dot)china(dot)huawei(dot)com>
> Attached patch is implementing following TODO item
> Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive
>
> * More robust pg_hba.conf parsing/error logging<http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg00432.php>

Hmm. I see a case for accepting "ALL" (as in hosts.allow(5)), so +1 on
that, but I don't think the other keywords like "host" and "peer"
should be valid in upper case.

Possibly things like "MD5" and "GSSAPI" are naturally spelled in upper
case, but I have my doubts about the rest.

Christoph
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