Re: 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: 2010-10-23T12:19:02Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

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hba-host-pattern.patch (text/x-patch) patch

On tor, 2010-10-21 at 06:38 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.

Here is a patch for that.