PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> It's not actually a problem, it's a question. pgpass in my case, has two
> lines, one with 127.0.0.1 and another with localhost
> what would be the difference from one to another. ??
AFAIR, the field is matched to how you wrote the hostname in the
connection parameters.
Also, it looks like there's a special case to consider 'localhost'
as matching a Unix-socket connection, if the socket is in the
installation's default socket directory.
regards, tom lane