Re: pgpass hostname and IP address

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgpass hostname and IP address
Date: 2018-03-10 04:26:37
Message-ID: CAKFQuwbXGVG_a9WYbsxdfYHzRkFp=f7PAkYkappSKnGdkSt9Xw@mail.gmail.com
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On Friday, March 9, 2018, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> wrote:

> (8.4 and 9.2, but soon to 9.6)
>
> If we sometimes access a db server by IP address, and sometimes by
> hostname, must we have two entries for each server+user (one with the
> hostname and the other with IP address), or is there a way to put them both
> on the same lin
>

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/libpq-pgpass.html

So unless you can make a wildcard work you are stuck with two separate
lines.

David J.

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