Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Not that this affects me in any way, but should there be a GUC variable
>> to set the default behavior system-wide?
> I thought about that, but I don't want to add extra gucs without a good
> reason. You'd typically not have very many different lines in pg_hba for
> this, and just duplicating the parameter there would be ok I think.
> I'd rather move more of the krb parameters to be *just* in pg_hba.conf,
> but for now I left those in postgresql.conf as fallbacks..
If you think those parameters would make more sense in pg_hba.conf,
let's just move them and be done with it. There has never been any
intention that administrator-only GUCs would be promised compatible
across versions. And the GUC mechanism is really rather a lot of
overhead compared to options on a pg_hba line ...
regards, tom lane