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To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
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Cc: Zsolt Parragi <[email protected]>
Cc: Tristan Partin <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Proposal: new file format for hba/ident/hosts configuration?
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 14:43:17 -0700
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Freeze the parsing of old-style files; new features and changes go only in the new format. This should eliminate (well, almost eliminate) the maintenance burden associated with having two file formats.
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> That's the scenario Tom warned against upthread.
But if, hypothetically, a new format were indeed a big improvement for
people, it's probably what we should do.
--Jacob
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