Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?

Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
> How about silently creating a IPV6 style host internally for every IPV4 
> pg_hba.conf entry? It won't make any sense to handle a real IPV4 address 
> different from an IPV4 address converted to IPV6 address space.

Hmm.  I could go for that, if it weren't that there seem to be several
different conventions for embedding IPv4 in IPv6.  Should we auto-create
pg_hba.conf entries for all of the possibly equivalent addresses?  What
if that creates conflicts?
        regards, tom lane