On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:31 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I don't have any particular objection to '&' if people prefer that. > But ':' seems like it would introduce confusion with the > variable-substitution notation used in psql and some other places. > > It's not that hard to imagine that somebody might want a > variable-substitution notation in pg_hba.conf someday, so we should > leave syntax room for one, and ':' seems like a likely choice > for it (although I suppose a case could be made for '$' too).
Well, as I say, I don't care very much... I hope we can agree on something and move forward. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
