Re: pg_hba.conf && ident ...

Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> I'd thought that I'd fixed PostgreSQL itself too but looking
> back in my mail logs I can only find my patch which fixes the problem
> with sending ident requests from a server with an IP alias. I may have
> forgotten to send in the patch (or even to write one) for the "ident
> synchronous in postmaster" problem itself. Sorry. I'll look harder.

Yes, I see your alias patch in there, but that doesn't have anything to
do with the problem of a nonresponding ident server.  I agree with Jan
that a really good fix would allow the postmaster to return to its outer
event loop while waiting for the ident response.  It'd be a nontrivial
rewrite though... anyone use ident enough to want to tackle it?
        regards, tom lane