Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > are you sure it's not just for beauty's sake?
> 
> What I didn't like about your last patch was the close coupling of the
> CIDR/netmask processing to the v4-to-v6 conversion; as Andrew pointed
> out, you were hacking into hba.c functionality that overlapped with
> SockAddr_cidr_mask.  Doing the conversion after we've collected the
> netmask seems a lot cleaner to me.  Also, this way keeps a fairly decent
> separation of interests between hba.c (parsing the hba.conf syntax) and
> ip.c (messing with address representations).
> 
> > While talking about beauty: that setting of *cidr_slash to '/' and 0
> > doesn't look too esthetic...
> 
> It is ugly (and I didn't write it ;-)).  But if we palloc'd a modified
> version of the token we'd have to remember to pfree it, so it nets out
> to about the same amount of code either way I think.  If you wanna try
> to clean it up more, be my guest ...

Would you like me to conditionally add the IPv6 line to pg_hba.conf from
initdb now?

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