Re: [PATCH] Patch to make pg_hba.conf handle virtualhost access control and samehost keyword

> > > Maybe it should be cached in memory and only be re-read on request
> > > (SIGHUP).  Parsing that file every time is undoubtedly a large
> > fraction of
> > > the total connection startup time.
> >
> > Okay with me if someone wants to do it ... but that'd be a lot more work
> > than just moving the documentation ...
>
> Or cache the information and just do a file modification timestamp check on
> each connection to see if it needs to be reread.  (Best of both worlds??)

Rather than having to create data structures for the complex pg_hba.conf
format, I am going to do a quick-and-dirty and load the non-comment
lines into a List of strings and have the postmaster read that.  It will
reload from the file on sighup, just like we do for postgresql.conf.

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