Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Personally I wouldn't object to making it match "localhost" in all >> cases. That's what the documentation says, and the use-case for >> doing something more complicated seems pretty thin.
> I almost agree. If anything, I'd prefer to provide for an explicit entry > covering all Unix Domain sockets - it took me by some surprise to find a > while back that "localhost" covers that case - it seems a mismatch with > how pg_hba.conf works. Well, that'd break existing .pgpass files (unless we match localhost too, which seems to defeat the purpose). But maybe it's worth doing for consistency's sake. I think we should bring it up on a more widely read list than -patches if you want to propose a non-backwards-compatible change ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly