David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> While investigating another project, namely adding pg_hba.conf support
> to pgbouncer, I ran into a stumbling block others probably will, too:
> the hba code is backend-only, which means that if I were to do this
> as-is, I would be cooking a batch of very unappetizing copypasta.
> I'm allergic to copypasta, so unless there are big objections, I'd
> like to export those functions to make hba available to other code.
How exactly would exporting those functions help anything client-side?
regards, tom lane