Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Currently in pg_hba.conf you specify the ip addresses that can > connect with 2 fields: the ip address and the mask. > > What do you think about changing it to ip address/mask? Where > mask can be both the current mask, or the prefix length. > > It's so much handier to use, especially for ipv6.
Yes, some have asked about this. My understanding was that CIDR (host/len) was mostly for networks, while hostname/mask was for hosts. Now, you can specify hosts using /32, but is is unusual? Maybe not. We basically have columns in pg_hba.conf that can specify either hosts or networks, so I suppose either should work. One neat trick would be to allow both, and I think I can easily code that up. If you specify a '/' and value after the host address, you don't use a netmask value. How is that? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
