Re: Brokenness in parsing of pg_hba.conf

Greg Stark wrote:

>"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>Second, you state that this usage is valid. When you first raised the
>>matter, you were so certain that it was sanctified by standard that you
>>asked me if I would implement it if you could quote an RFC sanctifying it
>>(I said yes) and went off to find one. To your surprise, you couldn't, and
>>now want to say that "valid" is defined for every OS in every context by
>>the man page for one library call on one OS (or possibly several).
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>Would the POSIX/IEEE/SuS be authoritative enough?
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Enough for me, yes, no matter how crazy I think it is ;-)

But as you seem to imply it still looks like Not Our Problem (tm).

cheers

andrew