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Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: 2010-10-06T11:53:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

On 10/06/2010 04:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tis, 2010-10-05 at 22:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So far as I can find, there is *no* standard
>> mandating that localhost means the loopback address.
> Should we then change pgstat.c to use IP addresses instead of hardcoding
> "localhost"?
>

I understood Tom to be saying we should not rely on "localhost" for 
authentication, not that we shouldn't use it at all.

cheers

andrew