Hi

On 11.09.23 00:33, Michael Paquier wrote:
Well, it looks like what I wrote a couple of days ago was perhaps
confusing:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ZPHAiNp%2ByKMsa/vc%40paquier.xyz
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/zpe8a7enuh+ax...@paquier.xyz

This patch touches hbafuncs.c and the system view pg_hba_file_rules,
but I don't think this stuff should touch any of these code paths.
That's what I meant in my second message: the SQL portion should be
usable for all types of configuration files, even pg_ident.conf and
postgresql.conf, and not only pg_hba.conf.  A new SQL function
returning a SRF made of the comments extracted and the line numbers
can be joined with all the system views of the configuration files,
like sourcefile and sourceline in pg_settings, etc.
--
Michael

Thanks for the feedback.

I indeed misunderstood what you meant in the other thread, as you explicitly only mentioned hba.c.

The change to hbafunc.c was mostly a function call and a new column to the view:


comment = GetInlineComment(hba->rawline);
if(comment)
   values[index++] = CStringGetTextDatum(comment);
else
   nulls[index++] = true;


Just to make sure I got what you have in mind: you suggest to read the pg_hba.conf a second time via a new (generic) function like pg_read_file() that returns line numbers and their contents (+comments), and the results of this new function would be joined pg_hba_file_rules in SQL. Is that correct?

Thanks



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