On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I spent a fair amount of time just now being confused about why
>> pg_hba.conf restrictions on replication connections didn't seem to be
>> getting enforced.  After looking at the code, I realize that my entry
>> with database = "replication" was indeed getting rejected as not
>> matching, but then the hba code was falling through and matching an
>> entry with database = "all".  This is not the behavior I expected
>> after
>> looking at the docs; the docs seem to imply that SR connections must
>> match an explicit replication entry in pg_hba.conf in order to
>> succeed.
>>
>> Should we change this?  It seems to me to be a good thing on security
>> grounds if replication connections can't be made through a generic
>> pg_hba entry.
>
> +1.

+1 too.

Regards,

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NTT Open Source Software Center

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