Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> To what purpose?  I think I prefer Andrew Dunstan's approach of allowing
>> IPv4 syntax in pg_hba.conf to match appropriate IPv6 connections.

> I am confused.  Andrew Dunstan's approach added a new 'loopback' line
> to pg_hba.conf.
> Andreas Pflug had the patch that treated IPv4 as IPv6.

Ah, my mistake.  The patch from Andreas seems like a reasonable thing to
me.

I'm of two minds about 'loopback' --- it's perhaps logically cleaner
than referring to 127.0.0.1, but do we want another special case?
Also, do we really need it if we add Andreas' patch?
        regards, tom lane