Re: Remote administration functionality

From: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remote administration functionality
Date: 2005-08-01 14:15:33
Message-ID: m2u0i9oi9m.fsf@Douglas-McNaughts-Powerbook.local
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"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]

>> I am thinking we will need load_pg_hba() and write_pg_hba() that will
>> load and write the table to pg_hba.conf.
>
> Yeah, that bit is straghtforward enough, but what about the situation
> where dba #1 updates the pg_hba table, at the same time as dba #2 is
> editting pg_hba.conf in vi?

"Don't do that then."

With this change, editing ph_hba.conf by hand should only be done when
the database is down...

-Doug

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