Rafael Martinez wrote:

> Problem:
> - --------
> If you define in pg_hba.conf a database or a user value with 'ALL'
> instead of 'all', you will lose access to *all* databases involved. The
> reload process will not report anything about 'ALL' been an invalid
> value and the new pg_hba.conf will be reloaded.
> 
> This is the only thing in the log file:
> "LOG:  received SIGHUP, reloading configuration files"

Aye, that's surprising.  I think the correct fix here is to change the
strcmp comparisons to pg_strcasecmp() in several places in hba.c.

(BTW the business about appending newlines to special tokens in
next_token() seems ugly and underdocumented.)

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