Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Tommi Mäkitalo <t(dot)maekitalo(at)epgmbh(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?
Date: 2003-09-04 18:17:43
Message-ID: 14962.1062699463@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> To what purpose? I think I prefer Andrew Dunstan's approach of allowing
>> IPv4 syntax in pg_hba.conf to match appropriate IPv6 connections.

> I am confused. Andrew Dunstan's approach added a new 'loopback' line
> to pg_hba.conf.
> Andreas Pflug had the patch that treated IPv4 as IPv6.

Ah, my mistake. The patch from Andreas seems like a reasonable thing to
me.

I'm of two minds about 'loopback' --- it's perhaps logically cleaner
than referring to 127.0.0.1, but do we want another special case?
Also, do we really need it if we add Andreas' patch?

regards, tom lane

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