We're in a situation where we would like to take advantage of the pgpass
hostname field to determine which password gets used. For example:
psql -h prod-server -d foo # should use the prod password
psql -h beta-server -d foo # should use the beta password
This would *seem* to be simple, just put "prod-server" or "beta-server" into
the hostname field of .pgpass. But if somebody uses the FQDN of those hosts,
then the line does not match. If somebody uses the IP address of those hosts,
again, no match. It seems that the hostname must match the hostname *exactly* -
or match any host ("*"), which does not work for our use case.
This seems to make the hostname field unnecessarily inflexible. Has anybody
else experienced - and hopefully overcome - this pain? Maybe I'm just going
about it all wrong.
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