On 03/03/2015 05:07 PM, Greg Stark wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com> wrote: >> I can make these changes if you want. > > Personally I'm just not convinced this is worth it. It makes the > catalogs harder for people to read and use and only benefits people > who have users named "all" or databases named "all", "sameuser", or > "samerole" which I can't really imagine would be anyone. > > If this were going to be the infrastructure on which lots of tools > rested rather than just a read-only view that was mostly going to be > read by humans that might be different. Are you envisioning a tool > that would look at this view, offer a gui for users to make changes > based on that information, and build a new pg_hba.conf to replace it?
I'm planning to write such a tool. However, I am not concerned about weird name cases like the above. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
