Re: Use "samehost" by default in pg_hba.conf?

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> I'm not sure if it out-ranks the advantages of the change for buildfarm
> support, but the above change isn't actually without any disadvantage.
> Specifically, not every auth mechanism that works with -h machine_name
> works with -h localhost, but the first record in pg_hba which is matched
> is used.  I could have:

> host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          @authmethod@
> host    all         all         A.B.C.D/32            @authmethod2@

If you've got any such thing, you've got a *nondefault* pg_hba.conf
file.  Or are you opining that people who are smart enough to set
that up are too stupid to replace a single "samehost" entry with
the two entries they need?
        regards, tom lane