Re: TODO Item: Allow pg_hba.conf to specify host names along with IP addresses - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: TODO Item: Allow pg_hba.conf to specify host names along with IP addresses
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Msg-id 16112.1213393838@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: TODO Item: Allow pg_hba.conf to specify host names along with IP addresses  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: TODO Item: Allow pg_hba.conf to specify host names along with IP addresses  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Perhaps the solution to this problem is to do the lookups and store the
> TTL of each answer.  At the time of actually checking you need only get
> a new answer for those that expired.

This is not behavior we'd want to put into the postmaster, though,
and it's hard to see how to manage it otherwise.  (Well, maybe a new
postmaster child process just for this, but I find it hard to believe
the feature is worth that.)
        regards, tom lane


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