Re: Parsing errors in pg_hba.conf

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> In a number of places in pg_hba.conf, we don't actually log what goes
> wrong - instead we just goto a label that will log "invalid token \"%s\"".

> Is there any special reason for this, other than the fact that it was
> the easy way out? I think it would be reasonable to for example log
> "hostssl not supported on this platform" instead of that, when USE_SSL
> is not defined, etc.

It would be seriously messy to try to make the parse-error code know
about things like that.  Better would be to keep the GUC variable in
existence always and have an assign hook to throw the error.
        regards, tom lane