Re: Allow file inclusion in pg_hba and pg_ident files

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 03:56:07PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>
> So, I have spent a good portion of today looking at what you have
> here, applying 0001 and 0003 while fixing, rebasing and testing the
> whole, discarding 0002 (we could do more for the line number and
> source file in terms of the LOGs reported for a regexec failure).

Thanks!

> Now remains 0004, which is the core of the proposal, and while it
> needs a rebase,

Have you already done a rebase while working on the patch or are you intending
to take care of it, or should I? Let's no both do the work :)

> - The TAP test, which is half the size of the patch in line number.
> Could it be possible to make it more edible, introducing a basic
> infrastructure to check a set of rules in pg_hba.conf and
> pg_ident.conf without the inclusion logic? Checks for error patterns
> (that I agree we strongly lack tests for) look like something we'd
> want to tackle independently of the inclusion logic, and it should be
> built on top of a basic test infra, at least.

I don't mind taking care of that, but before doing so I'd like to have some
feedback on whether you're ok with my approach (per my initial email about it
at [1]) or if you had some different
ideas on how to do it.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20220730080936.atyxodvwlmf2wnoc@jrouhaud