Tom Lane wrote:
> 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?
I agree we don't need yet another pg_hba.conf keyword, and Andreas'
patch handles all IPv4 addresses, not just localhost.
Let me load up the patch queue today so everyone can see where we are
going.
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