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

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Tom Lane wrote:
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>>Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
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>>>Agreed, but from a clarity perspective, are we better moving to the CIDR
>>>format for hostnames in pg_hba.conf anyway?
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>>Possibly --- it'd be easier to sell on that argument anyway ;-)
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s/hostnames/netmasks/

+1 vote. They are whole lot easier to understand anyway. We already did 
it for the IPv6 addr, and you thought it so nice you put it in the 
release notes :-)

>>>Also, I think we would accept a patch that modified pg_hba.conf for
>>>Solaris only that made this change.
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>>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.
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>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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I thought the report was that *only* 255.255.255.255 failed. The 
question is why? And would changing the hints passed to getaddrinfo_all 
improve matters (e.g. by filling in the ai_family with the value from 
the addr structure we already have)?

cheers

andrew