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reject
Reject the connection unconditionally. This is useful for “ filtering out ” certain hosts from a group, for example a reject line could block a specific host from connecting, while a later line allows the remaining hosts in a specific network to con…
Reading PostgreSQL 18.6.
Description
Reject the connection unconditionally. This is useful for “ filtering out ” certain hosts from a group, for example a reject line could block a specific host from connecting, while a later line allows the remaining hosts in a specific network to connect.
- Method
- reject
- Configuration
- pg_hba.conf
- Inventory
- User-visible source authentication method
Manual definition
reject-
Reject the connection unconditionally. This is useful for “filtering out” certain hosts from a group, for example a
rejectline could block a specific host from connecting, while a later line allows the remaining hosts in a specific network to connect.
Documentation and source
Source build
- Version
- 18.6
- Build
- https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v18.6/postgresql-18.6.tar.bz2
- Source fingerprint
555610c24d53e4316da5b7d3fc25c279d96856d5e0e23ee308c328c5fa881d9f
Compare versions
PostgreSQL 17 → 18: unchanged.
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Related entries
Export JSON · Back to Authentication Methods · Recorded in PostgreSQL 10 through 20; the first sample is not necessarily its introduction.