Re: pg_hba.conf: samehost and samenet

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