| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Mark Woodward <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <eulerto(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Why don't we allow DNS names in pg_hba.conf? |
| Date: | 2006-02-13 20:21:30 |
| Message-ID: | 4101.1139862090@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Personally, I doubt there's any great use case for DNS names. Like Tom
> says, if it involves much more that removing the AI_NUMERICHOST hint
> then let's forget it.
Perhaps more to the point: let's do that and wait to see if the field
demand justifies expending lots of sweat on anything smarter. Given
that we've gone this long with only allowing numeric IPs in pg_hba.conf,
I suspect we'll find that few people really care.
regards, tom lane
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