Re: Why don't we allow DNS names in pg_hba.conf? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gregory Maxwell
Subject Re: Why don't we allow DNS names in pg_hba.conf?
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Msg-id e692861c0602131235p778c9501y7da3b812d89772c8@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Why don't we allow DNS names in pg_hba.conf?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On 2/13/06, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Well as one of the people that deploys and managees many, many
> postgresql installations I can say I have never run into the need to
> have dns names and the thought of dns names honestly seems silly. It
> will increase overhead and dependencies that I just wouldn't want in my
> installations.

It is not uncommon for an environment that has already suffered
through one forced renumbering to forbid the use of hard set IPs in
application software.

With IPv6 we will just see more and more of that.


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