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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: fabriziomello@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: Providing catalog view to pg_hba.conf file - Patch submission
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:27:03 -0500
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=?UTF-8?Q?Fabr=C3=ADzio_de_Royes_Mello?= <fabriziomello@gmail.com> writes:
> But I'm thinking about this patch and would not be interesting to have a
> FDW to manipulate the hba file? Imagine if we are able to manipulate the
> HBA file using INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE.

Since the HBA file is fundamentally order-dependent, while SQL tables
are fundamentally not, that doesn't seem like a great API match.  You
could probably brute-force something that would work, but it would very
much be a case of using a hammer to solve a screwdriver problem.

			regards, tom lane


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