| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf |
| Date: | 2010-08-10 14:59:20 |
| Message-ID: | 207.1281452360@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On tis, 2010-08-10 at 09:18 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Why can't a forward lookup which matches the requesting IP be considered
>> sufficient?
> For one thing, because people might like to add wildcard support. So I
> might be able to say
> host all all appserver*.example.com md5
I don't think that the possibility that we might support that in future
can justify using a slow and not-too-reliable method for ordinary
non-wildcard names.
regards, tom lane
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