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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Use "samehost" by default in pg_hba.conf?
Date: 2009-10-01 03:17:50
Message-ID: 8113.1254367070@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 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.

The advantage is to get some testing so that we can *find out* if the
code has got problems...

regards, tom lane

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