On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:31 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I don't have any particular objection to '&' if people prefer that.
> But ':' seems like it would introduce confusion with the
> variable-substitution notation used in psql and some other places.
>
> It's not that hard to imagine that somebody might want a
> variable-substitution notation in pg_hba.conf someday, so we should
> leave syntax room for one, and ':' seems like a likely choice
> for it (although I suppose a case could be made for '$' too).
Well, as I say, I don't care very much... I hope we can agree on
something and move forward.
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