pg_hba.conf host name wildcard support
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-10-21T03:38:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
So, as previously indicated, let's add some wildcard support to the pg_hba.conf host name feature. After looking around a bit, two syntaxes appear to be on offer: 1. TCP Wrappers style, leading dot indicates suffix match. So .example.com matches anything.example.com. Not sure how useful that would be, but it could be implemented in about 3 lines of code. 2. Full regular expressions. I'd suggest the pg_ident.conf style, where a leading slash indicates a regex. An example could be /^dbserver\d\. With some code refactoring, this would also only take a few extra lines of code. Comments, other ideas?