Re: 7.4.3 & 8.0.0beta1 + Solaris 9: default pg_hba.conf breaks

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 7.4.3 & 8.0.0beta1 + Solaris 9: default pg_hba.conf breaks
Date: 2004-08-18 16:51:41
Message-ID: 1873.1092847901@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> Seems unlikely. I suppose you could argue that we shouldn't be using
>> getaddrinfo on the netmask field at all; there's certainly not any value
>> in doing a DNS lookup on it, for instance. Maybe we should go back to
>> using plain ol' inet_aton for it? (Nah, won't handle IPv6...)

> We could do it if we tested the addr.ai_family first, and only did it in
> the IPv4 case. I agree calling getaddrinfo is overkill for masks.

Huh? The reason we're using getaddrinfo in the first place is we don't
*know* whether we've got an IPv4 or IPv6 string ...

regards, tom lane

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