Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf
Date: 2010-10-06 11:53:48
Message-ID: 4CAC634C.5000704@dunslane.net
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On 10/06/2010 04:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tis, 2010-10-05 at 22:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So far as I can find, there is *no* standard
>> mandating that localhost means the loopback address.
> Should we then change pgstat.c to use IP addresses instead of hardcoding
> "localhost"?
>

I understood Tom to be saying we should not rely on "localhost" for
authentication, not that we shouldn't use it at all.

cheers

andrew

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