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From: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Tristan Partin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zsolt Parragi <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Proposal: new file format for hba/ident/hosts configuration?
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 16:08:04 -0700
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's
> not their problem if we're having issues shoehorning new features
> into the existing format.

(It is, though. Users like new features, and I have yet to meet a user
who's happy that we don't implement reasonable improvements because of
choices made pre-21st-century. The config format has gotten in the way
of recent development, and it's starting to force a bunch of
unpleasant compromises.)

--Jacob






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