Re: pg_hba.conf: samehost and samenet - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stef Walter
Subject Re: pg_hba.conf: samehost and samenet
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Msg-id 20090814202631.31AC9303982F@mx.npubs.com
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In response to pg_hba.conf: samehost and samenet  (Stef Walter <stef-list@memberwebs.com>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 
> A couple of comments on the patch:

Thanks I'll keep these in mind, as things progress and for future patches.

> * In general, don't include configure in the patch. Just configure.in.
> Makes it easier to read, and configure is normally built by the
> committer anyway.
> 
> * How portable is this? For starters is clearly doesn't do Windows,
> which would need to be investigated for similar functionality, but how
> many others support getifaddr()? From what I can tell it's not in
> POSIX, at least.

I'll look further into this, and about compat shims. getifaddrs() is on
the BSDs, Linux and Mac OS.


> Please add it to the open commitfest
> (https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open). This
> will cause it to be reviewed during the next commitfest, and then you
> just need to be around to answer any questions that reviewers come up
> with :-)

Cool, I'll do that once we've worked out the kinks here. Is the right
way to go about it?

Cheers,

Stef




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