Reporting hba lines

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Reporting hba lines
Date: 2012-06-27 12:54:15
Message-ID: CABUevEztu2cbVNR4ZMuTrtxWyZsPp3Y+4rYgPmaNh5N0T3E08Q@mail.gmail.com
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When debugging strange and complex pg_hba lines, it can often be quite
useful to know which line is matching a particular connection that
failed for some reason. Because more often than not, it's actually not
using the line in pg_hba.conf that's expected.

The easiest way to do this is to emit an errdetail for the login
failure, per this patch.

Question is - is that leaking information to the client that we
shouldn't be leaking?

And if it is, what would be the preferred way to deal with it? We
could put that as a detail to basically every single error message
coming out of the auth system, but that seems like a bad idea. Or we
could make a separate ereport(LOG) before send it to the client,
perhaps?

Thoughts?

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 Magnus Hagander
 Me: http://www.hagander.net/
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