Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf

On mån, 2010-10-11 at 21:34 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > * Why getnameinfo() in the fallback loop?
> 
> I checked through my git history; this was actually a leftover from
> some
> debugging code.  I'll remove it.
> 
> > * Slash ('/') after the hostname
> > 
> > At the parse_hba_line(), the parsed token which contains either
> > hostname or cidr address is sliced into two parts on the first '/'
> > character, if exist.
> > Then, even if cidr_slash is not NULL, it shall be ignored when
> > top-half of the token is hostname, not numeric address.
> 
> OK, I'll fix that.

Hopefully final patch, which addresses the above issues, adds some
documentation enhancements, and the possibility to quote host names (in
case someone wants to have a host named "samehost").