Re: LibPQ doesn't say host=* translates to localhost

"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> The documentation [0] doesn't say this should work and general networking
> knowledge leads me to believe it wouldn't [1].

> PGHOST='*' psql postgres
> psql (17beta1)

Seems to be an undocumented glibc-ism.  That works for me on RHEL8,
but not on macOS:

$ psql -h '*'
psql: error: could not translate host name "*" to address: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

The POSIX spec for getaddrinfo(3) doesn't suggest it should
work, either.

			regards, tom lane