On 10/06/2010 04:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tis, 2010-10-05 at 22:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So far as I can find, there is *no* standard
>> mandating that localhost means the loopback address.
> Should we then change pgstat.c to use IP addresses instead of hardcoding
> "localhost"?
>
I understood Tom to be saying we should not rely on "localhost" for
authentication, not that we shouldn't use it at all.
cheers
andrew