The attached tiny patch will possibly help to avoid some confusion by
Windows users about the "local" line in pg_hba.conf (and thus help
reduce queries to us ;-) ). It also removes an essentially content-free
suffix in 2 nearby comment lines.
cheers
andrew
Index: src/backend/libpq/pg_hba.conf.sample
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/libpq/pg_hba.conf.sample,v
retrieving revision 1.53
diff -c -w -r1.53 pg_hba.conf.sample
*** src/backend/libpq/pg_hba.conf.sample 26 Aug 2004 16:50:05 -0000 1.53
--- src/backend/libpq/pg_hba.conf.sample 21 Sep 2004 16:41:30 -0000
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*** 60,67 ****
# TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
local all all @authmethod@
! # IPv4-style local connections:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 @authmethod@
! # IPv6-style local connections:
host all all ::1/128 @authmethod@
--- 60,68 ----
# TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
+ # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections, and does not apply to Windows
local all all @authmethod@
! # IPv4 local connections:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 @authmethod@
! # IPv6 local connections:
host all all ::1/128 @authmethod@