From: | Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Jerry Sievers <gsievers19(at)comcast(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: HBA files w/include support? |
Date: | 2014-02-17 00:33:05 |
Message-ID: | CAMkU=1wu8uffv=_xtC4cPTiEO0Q7=xyCZzv5y4L7A-yKp1djxQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sunday, February 16, 2014, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> wrote:
> 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?
>
It is not so much doing two diffs, as remembering to do two diffs, that I
would like to avoid. pg_hba.conf is very easy to forget about. I guess if
I spent more time worrying about it, then that is the one I would remember
and postgresql.conf is the one I'd forget.
Cheers,
Jeff
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