Re: pg_hba.conf.sample wording improvement

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_hba.conf.sample wording improvement
Date: 2021-04-28 14:30:27
Message-ID: 2797148.1619620227@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Looking at it now, I wonder how well do the "hostno" options work. If I
> say "hostnogssenc", is an SSL-encrypted socket good? If I say
> "hostnossl", is a GSS-encrypted socket good? If so, how does that make
> sense?

Kind of off-topic for this thread, but I wonder if we should introduce
"hostenc" and "hostnoenc" to mean "encrypted (or not), and I don't care
by which method". The addition of GSS has made it painful to express
those concepts.

regards, tom lane

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