Re: "make check" and pg_hba.conf

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Is there a way to get "make check" to install a custom pg_hba.conf for
> its
> > temporary installation? Something like pre-prending the line:
> > local all password_user md5
> > To the default pg_hba.conf?
>
> No. Why would you want that? External connections to the test DB seem
> like exactly what you *don't* want, for reproducibility's sake.
>

I would want to do that so that the code dealing with password-based logins
doesn't go completely untested by "make check", like it currently is.

I don't see how connecting to an obscure unix socket with a password is
more "external" than connecting to the same obscure linux socket without a
password.

Cheers,

Jeff