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| author | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi> | 2010-03-31 20:18:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi> | 2010-03-31 20:18:10 +0000 |
| commit | 259f60e9b6884f3ba4197f1315221c21258a1f23 (patch) | |
| tree | 341d1f37d14d9cbb8b52ac4445e1a1b30be1b469 /doc/src | |
| parent | 991bfe11d28a9d2c70d54203bac2562995af504a (diff) | |
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Mention in the docs that if special keywords like "sameuser" and
"replication" are quoted in pg_hba.conf, they lose their special meaning.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index 785c55050a6..59d19383fba 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.134 2010/03/17 17:12:31 petere Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.135 2010/03/31 20:18:10 heikki Exp $ --> <chapter id="client-authentication"> <title>Client Authentication</title> @@ -77,8 +77,11 @@ a set of records, one per line. Blank lines are ignored, as is any text after the <literal>#</literal> comment character. A record is made up of a number of fields which are separated by spaces and/or tabs. - Fields can contain white space if the field value is quoted. Records - cannot be continued across lines. + Fields can contain white space if the field value is quoted. + Quoting one of the keywords in database or username field (e.g "all" + or "replication") makes the name lose its special character, and just + match a database or username with that name. Records cannot be + continued across lines. </para> <para> |