Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2014-04-12 16:35:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In principle, that commit shouldn't have affected behavior for pg_hba
>> entries with numeric address fields ...
> Hm. getaddrinfo.c has this bit:
> /* Unsupported flags. */
> if (flags & NI_NAMEREQD)
> return EAI_AGAIN;
Yeah, and that flag is only ever specified when attempting to do reverse
lookup on a client address to see if it matches a non-numeric pg_hba
entry.
regards, tom lane