Re: pg_hba.conf and IP-MASK

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_hba.conf and IP-MASK
Date: 2004-08-22 03:23:39
Message-ID: 200408220323.i7M3NdQ19963@candle.pha.pa.us
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >We have an IP-MASK column in pg_hba.conf. Now that we are using CIDR
> >addresses by default, should we remove the column label?
> >
> >
> >
> I would mark it optional.

We could do that, but we could use the space if we removed it. One
other confusing thing is that it isn't the last column in the row, so it
is optional only if you used CIDR format --- kind of strange.

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