On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> cases where people are modifying the wrong hba file. Can we show
>>> the source text of the hba line?
>
>> We don't currently keep the full source text around - but we certainly
>> could do that if we wanted to.
>
> If we're concerned about providing a message like this, I think it'd be
> well worthwhile. We presumably would only store the active lines not
> comment lines, so the extra memory space would be negligible in just
> about any real use-case.
Turned out to be a bit more work than I thought, since the current
parser reads pg_hba byte by byte, and not line by line. So I had to
change that. See attached, seems reasonable?
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