Re: 7.4.3 & 8.0.0beta1 + Solaris 9: default pg_hba.conf breaks

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Agreed, but from a clarity perspective, are we better moving to the CIDR
> > format for hostnames in pg_hba.conf anyway?
> 
> Possibly --- it'd be easier to sell on that argument anyway ;-)
> 
> > Also, I think we would accept a patch that modified pg_hba.conf for
> > Solaris only that made this change.
> 
> That seems like the worst of all possible worlds.  Difficult to do *and*
> confusing for users, since on Solaris the sample file would no longer
> match the documentation.

True, but at least it would work.  Are they saying the masks don't work
at all?  Why haven't we heard this before?

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