Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> To what purpose? I think I prefer Andrew Dunstan's approach of allowing > >> IPv4 syntax in pg_hba.conf to match appropriate IPv6 connections. > > > I am confused. Andrew Dunstan's approach added a new 'loopback' line > > to pg_hba.conf. > > Andreas Pflug had the patch that treated IPv4 as IPv6. > > Ah, my mistake. The patch from Andreas seems like a reasonable thing to > me. > > I'm of two minds about 'loopback' --- it's perhaps logically cleaner > than referring to 127.0.0.1, but do we want another special case? > Also, do we really need it if we add Andreas' patch?
I agree we don't need yet another pg_hba.conf keyword, and Andreas' patch handles all IPv4 addresses, not just localhost. Let me load up the patch queue today so everyone can see where we are going. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
