Re: Use "samehost" by default in pg_hba.conf?

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> The advantage of this is that connections made with "-h machine_name"
> instead of "-h localhost" would work without customization.  I can't
> see any disadvantage to it.  Making the change now would also give
> us an opportunity to test the samehost/samenet implementation in the
> buildfarm, at least for machines without Unix sockets.
>
> (Note that you would still need a non-default setting of
> listen_addresses for "-h machine_name" to actually work.)
>
> Comments?

I don't see much advantage in this proposal, at least not immediately.
If it turns out to be a wildly popular feature and doesn't turn out
to introduce security vulnerabilities or breakage, we can always make
this change later.

...Robert