Re: About pg_hba.conf

Gevik Babakhani schrieb:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> This may be a dumb question but please bear a moment with me.
> About the TODO item “%Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via
> SQL“: If in the future we could configure the settings by SQL commands,
> assuming the settings are saved in an internal table, what would be the
> need for a pg_hba.conf file anymore. (except for the backward
> compatibility of cource)

No, you need the ability to override the settings with external
options to get access to a misconfigured database.

(Well of course you could run postgres in single user mode
to get that too, but it would be a little inconvient...)

Regards
Tino