Jaime Casanova <jcasa...@systemguards.com.ec> wrote: > Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> >> Although come to think of it ... is there any reason besides sheer >> conservatism to not make the default listen_addresses value '*'? > > just my 2 cents. but i always wondered about the existence of > listen_addresses at all... to me the only reason it exists is to > force me to change 'localhost' to '*' after installing, something i > always do almost automaticaly =) For all the reasons already given, -1 from me for changing the default of listen_addresses or eliminating it. Trust authentication has a few valid use cases, but it does tend to worry me that people may leave it enabled in inappropriate situations on production clusters. I don't see how we could get rid of it, but I'd be OK with a warning in the log when a pg_hba.conf file is processed which contains any trust entries. -Kevin
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