Re: [PATCH] Patch to make pg_hba.conf handle virtualhost access control and samehost keyword - Mailing list pgsql-patches

> Damien Clermont? writes:
>
> > This patch againsts postgresql 7.1.2 allows you to control access based on the
> > virtual host address only (virtualhost access type), or both the remote
> > address and the local address (connection access type).
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > connection all 192.168.42.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.42 255.255.255.255 trust
>
> I completely fail to understand what this does.  What is the expression
> that will be evaluated based on these four numbers?

The killer for me is the added complexity to an already complex file,
pg_hba.conf.

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