https://www.postgresscripts.com/tags/pg_hba.conf/Recent content in Pg_hba.conf on Postgres ScriptsHugo -- gohugo.ioenPostgresScripts.comMon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.postgresscripts.com/post/audit-postgresql-authentication-rules-with-pg-hba-file-rules/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.postgresscripts.com/post/audit-postgresql-authentication-rules-with-pg-hba-file-rules/ <h2 id="audit-postgresql-authentication-with-pg_hba_file_rules">Audit PostgreSQL Authentication with pg_hba_file_rules</h2> <p>Validating a <code>pg_hba.conf</code> edit before trusting it in production usually means reading the raw file line by line and hoping the parser interprets every rule the way it looks on screen. <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/view-pg-hba-file-rules.html">pg_hba_file_rules</a> skips that guesswork — it is a system view that shows exactly how the server parsed the file after the last reload, one row per rule, with a dedicated <code>error</code> column that flags any line PostgreSQL could not apply.</p>