pg_hba.conf host name wildcard support

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pg_hba.conf host name wildcard support
Date: 2010-10-21 03:38:55
Message-ID: 1287632335.25336.6.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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So, as previously indicated, let's add some wildcard support to the
pg_hba.conf host name feature. After looking around a bit, two syntaxes
appear to be on offer:

1. TCP Wrappers style, leading dot indicates suffix match.
So .example.com matches anything.example.com. Not sure how useful that
would be, but it could be implemented in about 3 lines of code.

2. Full regular expressions. I'd suggest the pg_ident.conf style, where
a leading slash indicates a regex. An example could be /^dbserver\d\.
With some code refactoring, this would also only take a few extra lines
of code.

Comments, other ideas?

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