Waiting for 8.5 – ‘samehost’ and ‘samenet’ in pg_hba.conf

October, finally. “Only" 1 month of backlog in new features in 8.5, but I'm getting there 🙂

So, on 1st of October Tom Lane committed patch by Stef Walter:

Log Message:
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Support "samehost" and "samenet" specifications in pg_hba.conf,
by enumerating the machine's IP interfaces to look for a match.
 
Stef Walter

For some reason I cannot find it in mailing list archive, but luckily have copy of email (without all headers unfortunately).

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