On mån, 2010-08-09 at 15:25 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > > Here is a patch for host name support in pg_hba.conf. > > My recollection is that the previous discussions got stuck on the cost > of doing DNS lookups for every connect; and the obvious solution of > trying to cache the names was shot down on the basis of not knowing when > to flush the cache. Have you decided that people who want this feature > will just have to pay that cost?
Either that or install nscd. While the speed of establishing a connection is critical to some setups, there are also plenty of setups where the connection setup speed is pretty much unimportant because of connection pooling. > If so, I think the documentation needs > to be a bit more explicit about names being more expensive than IP > addresses in pg_hba.conf. Fair enough. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
