Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes:
> On tis, 2010-08-10 at 09:18 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Why can't a forward lookup which matches the requesting IP be considered
>> sufficient?

> For one thing, because people might like to add wildcard support.  So I
> might be able to say
> host  all  all  appserver*.example.com  md5

I don't think that the possibility that we might support that in future
can justify using a slow and not-too-reliable method for ordinary
non-wildcard names.

                        regards, tom lane

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