Stephen Frost <sfr...@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
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