Re: Silent failure with invalid hba_file setting

From: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Silent failure with invalid hba_file setting
Date: 2011-10-24 08:13:23
Message-ID: CAA-aLv6sgfwYKzBXUtsxEkmUe9_rv4+nEGwNYySYxsB9W8Fh7A@mail.gmail.com
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On 19 October 2011 05:20, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> I wouldn't add extra special checks for that.  It might not be
>> completely unreasonable to have a standby that no one can connect to,
>> for example.
>
> Well, you couldn't monitor its state then, so I don't find that example
> very convincing.  But if you were intent on having that, you could
> easily set up a pg_hba file containing only "reject" entries.

I hadn't noticed you'd committed some changes around this until now. Thanks.

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