On tis, 2011-10-18 at 18:38 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > The problem with this is you cannot get into the database as it acts > > as if it did find the hba file but found it empty. > > Well, an actually empty pg_hba.conf file would have the same problem, > and it's pretty hard to see any situation where it would be useful to > start the postmaster and not let it accept any connections. Should we > add a check to consider it an error if the file doesn't contain at least > one HBA record?
If you try to connect and it doesn't find a record, it will tell you. I wouldn't add extra special checks for that. It might not be completely unreasonable to have a standby that no one can connect to, for example. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
