On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:46 PM, David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not just leave the double-quoting requirements intact. An unquoted > <any> or <sameuser> (etc) would represent the special keyword while the > quoted version would mean that the name is used literally. > For users that would be worse than not quoting. Then if they look up users they can't say WHERE username =ANY (users). They would have to do sumersaults like CASE WHEN username = 'all' then '"all"' =ANY (users) else username =ALL (users). The whole point of having a view should be that you don't need to know the syntax rules for pg_hba.conf to interpret the data. If you do then you might as well just write a parser and read the file. -- greg
