Quoting "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>:
>
> have a database behind a firewall ... we'd like to make connections
> available to that machine through a machine outside of the firewall, so
> that its a secure connection to the "proxy", and in-secure from
> proxy->database ...
>
> the 'clients' will be written in java ...
Marc, in the past I used sucessfully the proxygw tool from the fwtk toolkit.
Although it wasn't that secure (pg_hba.conf was effectively useless as it saw
just the firewall ip), it worked.
Peter
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