Re: pgpass hostname and IP address

On 03/09/2018 10:26 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Friday, March 9, 2018, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net 
> <mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net>> wrote:
>
>     (8.4 and 9.2, but soon to 9.6)
>
>     If we sometimes access a db server by IP address, and sometimes by
>     hostname, must we have two entries for each server+user (one with the
>     hostname and the other with IP address), or is there a way to put them
>     both on the same lin
>
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/libpq-pgpass.html
>
> So unless you can make a wildcard work you are stuck with two separate lines.

Yeah, I read that (well, the ones for my ancient versions), but hoped there 
might be something I missed, or some obscure and clever trick.

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