On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 4:06 PM Jim Jones <jim.jo...@uni-muenster.de> wrote: > Any thoughts?
You're probably not going to like this answer very much, but this doesn't seem particularly worthwhile to me. If somebody needs to document why they did something in pg_hba.conf, they can already put a comment in the file to explain that. Or they can track the reasons for what's in the file using some completely external system, like a Google document or a git repository or whatever. The argument for this feature is not that this information needs to exist, but that it needs to be queryable from within PostgreSQL. And I guess I just wonder if that is something that users in general want. It's not a terrible idea or anything, but it would be sad if we added such a feature and you were the only one who ever used it... and if a bunch of people now show up and say "actually, this would be great, I would totally like to have that," well, then, forget I said anything. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
