Re: host name support in pg_hba.conf

On tis, 2010-08-10 at 09:18 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Without the logic to ensure that the hostname matches the reverse
> lookup, this might be useful for us.  With that logic it is useless
> for us.  I'm wondering how much you gain by having it in there.  Why
> can't a forward lookup which matches the requesting IP be considered
> sufficient?

For one thing, because people might like to add wildcard support.  So I
might be able to say

host  all  all  appserver*.example.com  md5