Re: TODO Item: Allow pg_hba.conf to specify host names along with IP addresses

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TODO Item: Allow pg_hba.conf to specify host names along with IP addresses
Date: 2008-06-13 21:50:38
Message-ID: 16112.1213393838@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Perhaps the solution to this problem is to do the lookups and store the
> TTL of each answer. At the time of actually checking you need only get
> a new answer for those that expired.

This is not behavior we'd want to put into the postmaster, though,
and it's hard to see how to manage it otherwise. (Well, maybe a new
postmaster child process just for this, but I find it hard to believe
the feature is worth that.)

regards, tom lane

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