Re: pg_hba.conf: samehost and samenet

[Thanks for the heads up about the MessageID missing when posting this
previously. Was doing some mail filter development, and accidentally
left it in place... ]

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 2009/8/25 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:
>> Something to keep in mind -- my getifaddrs(3) manpage says that on BSD
>> it can return addresses that have ifa_addr set to NULL, which your code
>> doesn't seem to check.

Thanks for catching that. I've added a check, and attached a new patch.

> Eek. This is not defined by any standard, is it? I wonder how many
> different behaviours we can find there :(

I've checked AIX, Linux, BSD and Mac OS and NULL ifa_addr's are
documented in all of them.

Cheers,

Stef