On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
