Magnus,
However it would be nice to throw an error or at least a warning when parsing the file instead of pretending everything's ok. Perhaps authentication methods should have a function to check whether the method is supported which is called when the file is parsed.
The good way to solve this would be to have independant command line utilities which check pg_hba.conf, pg_ident.conf and postgresql.conf for errors. Then DBAs could run a check *before* restarting the server.
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