Re: CIDR in pg_hba.conf

--On Wednesday, May 07, 2003 09:50:55 -0400 Andrew Dunstan
<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

> Looking through the TODO list I noticed this item apparently unclaimed:
>
> * Allow CIDR format to be used in pg_hba.conf
>
> I can look at doing this, having done similar code some years ago.
>
> Internally, it seems the best thing to do would be to turn the /nn into a
> conventional netmask of the right family. I guess I'd add a utility
> routine to ip.c for that.
>
> The syntax for pg_hba.conf would change slightly, to allow these forms:
>
> host database user CIDR-address authentication-method
> [authentication-option]
> hostssl database user CIDR-address authentication-method
> [authentication-option]
>
> So in hba.c, if we found a / in the IP address, we wouldn't go looking
> for a separate netmask field.
Please do this !

LER

>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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