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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index e9072b76efc..7a2c45af382 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -3952,8 +3952,23 @@ BackendInitialize(Port *port)
*/
port->remote_host = strdup(remote_host);
port->remote_port = strdup(remote_port);
- if (log_hostname)
- port->remote_hostname = port->remote_host;
+
+ /*
+ * If we did a reverse lookup to name, we might as well save the results
+ * rather than possibly repeating the lookup during authentication.
+ *
+ * Note that we don't want to specify NI_NAMEREQD above, because then we'd
+ * get nothing useful for a client without an rDNS entry. Therefore, we
+ * must check whether we got a numeric IPv4 or IPv6 address, and not save
+ * it into remote_hostname if so. (This test is conservative and might
+ * sometimes classify a hostname as numeric, but an error in that
+ * direction is safe; it only results in a possible extra lookup.)
+ */
+ if (log_hostname &&
+ ret == 0 &&
+ strspn(remote_host, "0123456789.") < strlen(remote_host) &&
+ strspn(remote_host, "0123456789ABCDEFabcdef:") < strlen(remote_host))
+ port->remote_hostname = strdup(remote_host);
/*
* Ready to begin client interaction. We will give up and exit(1) after a