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From: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Patch to make pg_hba.conf handle virtualhost
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How about moving the documentation to a pg_hba.conf.README file?

People shouldn't be able to miss that very easily.

+ Justin

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> 
> > > Maybe it should be cached in memory and only be re-read on request
> > > (SIGHUP).  Parsing that file every time is undoubtedly a large
> > fraction of
> > > the total connection startup time.
> >
> > Okay with me if someone wants to do it ... but that'd be a lot more work
> > than just moving the documentation ...
> 
> Or cache the information and just do a file modification timestamp check on
> each connection to see if it needs to be reread.  (Best of both worlds??)
> 
> Chris
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