Re: pg_hba options parsing

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> This patch changes the options field of pg_hba.conf to take name/value
> pairs instead of a fixed string. This makes it a lot nicer to deal with
> auth methods that need more than one parameter, such as LDAP.
>
> While at it, it also adds map support to kerberos, gssapi and sspi and
> not just ident - basically all methods where the username comes from an
> outside source (lmk if I missed one).
>
> Also in passing, changes the methods in auth.c to deal with "unsupported
> auth method on this platform" errors the same way for all authentication
> methods.
>
> I intend to build on this patch to support setting some
> Kerberos/GSSAPI/SSPI parameters on a per-connection base, but wanted to
> get the basics in first.
>
> Obviously, documentation still pending. I'm working on that in parallel.
>
>
> So, comments? Both in general, and specifically on if we need to do
> backwards compatible parsing of LDAP options (doing it of all the other
> options would be trivial, but LDAP would be harder)

Updated version of this patch, now with doc changes.

//Magnus