| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
|---|---|
| To: | Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: replace all with * in pg_hba.conf |
| Date: | 2003-12-19 15:42:08 |
| Message-ID: | 3FE31C50.9060001@dunslane.net |
| Views: | Whole Thread | Raw Message | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-hackers pgsql-patches |
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>
>
>>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>
>>
>>>The minimal disturbance change might be to teach the parser to
>>>distinguish between a quoted 'all' and an unquoted 'all', and forget the
>>>'*' idea.
>>>
>>>
>>Probably we ought to go with that, on backwards-compatibility grounds.
>>
>>
>
>why not do both, but deprecate the use of all in the docs? say with an
>eventual goal of removing the use of all altogether in 2 releases?
>
>
>
The extra value is fairly low IMNSHO if we can distinguish between a
magical and a non-magical 'all' - see the patch I just submitted.
cheers
andrew
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Tom Lane | 2003-12-19 16:02:29 | Re: Linking with -lc not a good idea |
| Previous Message | Andrew Dunstan | 2003-12-19 15:33:11 | distinguish between all and "all" in pg_hba.conf |
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Tom Lane | 2003-12-19 17:11:08 | Re: replace all with * in pg_hba.conf |
| Previous Message | Andrew Dunstan | 2003-12-19 15:33:11 | distinguish between all and "all" in pg_hba.conf |