Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 12:56 PM Timmy Siu <timmy.siu@aol.com> wrote:
>> May I suggest the community to have postgres to work with TCP wrappers.??
>> Its security will be better.
> The last stable release of TCP Wrappers was a couple decades ago. It's
> deprecated in RHEL7 and removed in RHEL8. I'm not a PG core member or
> anything but rather doubt that's an area where the developers will want to
> expend effort.
Yeah. In a quick dig through the project archives, I can find exactly
one prior suggestion that we should do this, and that email is old
enough to drink:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/v0313030fb141b1665de9%40%5B137.78.218.94%5D
That doesn't bode well for the number of people who would use or care
about such a feature.
regards, tom lane