Re: HBA files w/include support?

On 2/14/14, 1:06 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us <mailto:bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 03:28:23AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Bruce,
>
> > Having @include and directory.d-style capabilities for pg_hba.conf *and*
> > pg_ident.conf would make managing larger environments much better.
> > There has been some talk about providing those capabilities via tables
> > in the catalog, but I'm not aware of anyone working on it and it'd
> > certainly be quite a bit more work than adding include/dir.d options.
>
> Do we want a TODO for this?
>
>
> If we are assembling a wish-list, I've often wanted the opposite of an include. I want the ability to encapsulate the contents of pg_hba.conf directly into postgresql.conf. So instead of giving a filename to hba_file, optionally give a multi-lined string with some kind of here-doc like mechanism, or something like that.
>
> When I set up a forked dev environment and then eventually want to compare the diverged dev setup back to production, I often forget to compare the pg_hba.conf file.

So is this just to avoid having to diff 2 files instead of one?

On it's face, I'm not seeing the value of putting pg_hba.conf inside postgresql.conf... what am I missing?
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