Re: Why don't we allow DNS names in pg_hba.conf?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> Personally, I doubt there's any great use case for DNS names. Like Tom 
>> says, if it involves much more that removing the AI_NUMERICHOST hint 
>> then let's forget it.
> 
> Perhaps more to the point: let's do that and wait to see if the field
> demand justifies expending lots of sweat on anything smarter.  Given
> that we've gone this long with only allowing numeric IPs in pg_hba.conf,
> I suspect we'll find that few people really care.

Well as one of the people that deploys and managees many, many 
postgresql installations I can say I have never run into the need to 
have dns names and the thought of dns names honestly seems silly. It 
will increase overhead and dependencies that I just wouldn't want in my 
installations.

Joshua D. Drake


> 
>             regards, tom lane
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