Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:

> The reason why I think this is semi-important and not just cosmetic is
> that (for some reason that is not entirely clear to me) clients
> connecting to localhost end up appearing to the server as ::1 on a lot
> of machines I use which are not otherwise keen on IPv6, and it is a
> common mistake to forget to keep the pg_hba.conf entries for 127.0.0.1
> and ::1 in sync.
>

This is exactly what I am seeing here. However contrary to your case the
patch makes it even worse on my side. With the patch compiled in and a
pg_hba.conf entry of "localhost", I cannot connect anymore to "-h
localhost", I get "no pg_hba.conf entry for host ::1".

This is mostly standard Ubuntu setup.


Joachim