On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.harib...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greg Stark wrote:
>>
>> > The fundamental problem is that the pga_hba.conf file has some bits of
>> > complex structure that aren't easily captured by linear arrays. The
>> > problem I struggled with most was the keywords like "all", "samerole",
>> > and "replication". A simple array of text makes it awkward to
>> > distinguish those keywords from the quoted text values with the same
>> > content. And then there are the ldap options which naturally would be
>> > a data type like json or htab.
>>
>> Hmm I thought we had decided that such keywords would live in separate
>> arrays, i.e. you have one array for plain names and another array for
>> keyword stuff.  Then it's not ambiguous anymore.
>
>
>
> Thanks for all your opinions. Here I attached updated patch with the change
> in column datatype from JSONB to TEXT array. Rest of the code changes
> are same to the earlier patch.
>

The added regression test fails for the cases where the server is loaded
with
different pg_hba.conf rules during installcheck verification. Updated patch
is
attached with removing those tests.

Regards,
Hari Babu
Fujitsu Australia

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