The code has been assuming already in a few places that the initial
recursion nesting depth is 0, and the recent changes in hba.c (mainly
783e8c6) have relies on this assumption in more places. The maximum
recursion nesting level is assumed to be 10 for hba.c and GUCs.
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221124090724.n7amf5kpdhx6vb76@jrouhaud
The code in charge of listing and classifying a set of configuration
files in a directory was located in guc-file.l, being used currently for
GUCs under "include_dir". This code is planned to be used for an
upcoming feature able to include configuration files for ident and HBA
files from a directory, similarly to GUCs. In both cases, the file
names, suffixed by ".conf", have to be ordered alphabetically. This
logic is moved to a new file, called conffiles.c, so as it is easier to
share this facility between GUCs and the HBA/ident parsing logic.
Author: Julien Rouhaud, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Y2IgaH5YzIq2b+iR@paquier.xyz
Bruce Momjian
Michael Paquier