>>At this stage of the game I would just change pg_hba.conf.sample to use

>>'127.0.0.1/32' instead of '127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255'.
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>>
>
>Yeah, that's probably the path of least resistance.  Note that the
>comments and possibly the SGML docs need to be adjusted to match,
>however, so it's not quite a one-liner.

Andrew Dunstan