Re: pgpass hostname and IP address

On 03/09/2018 10:26 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Friday, March 9, 2018, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net
> <mailto: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.

Yeah, I read that (well, the ones for my ancient versions), but hoped there
might be something I missed, or some obscure and clever trick.

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