[pgpool-hackers: 2535] Re: [New feature] Allow specifying the hostnames in pool_hba

[Ahsan Hadi]

Hi Usama,

I have tested the patch on a AWS instance, it looks good to me to commit.

-- Ahsan

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Muhammad Usama <m.usama at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> As of now pool_hba configuration only allows CIDR addresses to be
> specified in the pool_hba records in the address field and this patch
> enables the support of hostnames to be used instead of IP address.
> This feature can be very useful in environments where the availability of
> same IP address can't be ensured every time and the user can do the
> pool-hba configuration using the hostnames instead.
>
> Along with allowing the hostnames in address field of the HBA record the
> patch also made the following notable enhancements in the area.
>
> -- pool_hba records are now completely parsed at the loading time and we
> now keep the structured data of records instead of raw record lines,  This
> saves us the parsing at every new connection time and however little it may
> be but its will deliver a performance enhancement.
>
> -- Enhanced parsing now gives the better descriptive error/log messages.
>
> -- Better handling of auth-options field
>
>
> Please note that the most of the code is borrowed from PostgreSQL and the
> documentation part is still remaining.
>
>
> Thanks
> Best Regards
>
>
>


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