On 24th of October, Peter Eisentraut committed addition to his previous patch, which adds: Support suffix matching of host names in pg_hba.conf   A name starting with a dot can be used to match a suffix of the actual host name (e.g., .example.com matches ...

On 15th of October Peter Eisentraut committed patch (his own) which adds: Support host names in pg_hba.conf   Peter Eisentraut, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei and Tom Lane

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: ----------- Support "samehost" and "samenet" specifications in pg_hba.conf, by enumerating the machine's IP interfaces ...

Let's say you're in situation when you have to connect to PostgreSQL, but you have no idea on what password might be set. But some definitely is, as you get this error message: => psql Password: psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for ...