Re: Allow continuations in "pg_hba.conf" files

Hello Justin,

thanks for the feedback.

>> - Records cannot be continued across lines.
>> + Records can be backslash-continued across lines.
>
> Maybe say: "lines ending with a backslash are logically continued on the next
> line", or similar.

I tried to change it along that.

> Since it puts a blank there, it creates a "word" boundary, which I gather
> worked for your use case. But I wonder whether it's needed to add a space (or
> otherwise, document that lines cannot be split beween words?).

Hmmm. Ok, you are right. I hesitated while doing it. I removed the char
instead, so that it does not add a word break.

> Note, that also appears to affect the "username maps" file. So mention
> in that chapter, too.
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-username-maps.html

Indeed, the same tokenizer is used. I updated a sentence to point on
continuations.

--
Fabien.