On 2/2/17 2:59 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> We currently have REPLICATION to mean "physical replication".
Well, it doesn't really mean that. The same facilities are used to
control access to both logical and physical replication.
> I think if we have another capability for logical replication then we
> would be able to easily allow one or the other, or both, so I don't
> see a problem here that forces us to keep pg_hba.conf the way it is.
I think change is possible and possibly desirable. One issue is that we
might need to adjust dump/restore so that it keeps existing usages
working. Details depend on the actual changes, of course.
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