Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> >> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >>> Can we allow the IPv6 entries to be in pg_hba.conf but ignore them on
> >>> non-IPv6 machines, or allow the connection to fail?
>
> > What is the problem? Is it that a non-IPv6 enabled postmaster is unable
> > to identify or parse valid IPv6 address specifications? In that case,
> > we need to provide some substitute routines.
>
> To what purpose? I think I prefer Andrew Dunstan's approach of allowing
> IPv4 syntax in pg_hba.conf to match appropriate IPv6 connections.
I am confused. Andrew Dunstan's approach added a new 'loopback' line
to pg_hba.conf.
Andreas Pflug had the patch that treated IPv4 as IPv6.
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