Horton

Re: duplicate connection failure messages

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

View thread
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-17T16:04:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of sb nov 13 22:36:31 -0300 2010:
> 
> > OK, I found out how to get the IP address with the attached patch.  The
> > problem is that only pghost is set, never pghostaddr.  I am not even
> > sure how that would get set for this code because my tests show it is
> > not:
> 
> This doesn't work for IPv6 addresses, though.
> 
> pghostaddr is specified by the user on the command line as an
> optimization to avoid DNS lookups IIRC, which is why you don't see the
> code setting it.

OK, I doubt we want to add complexity to improve this, so I see our
options as:

	o  ignore the problem
	o  display IPv4/IPv6 labels
	o  display only an IPv6 label
	o  something else

Comments?

-- 
  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                             http://enterprisedb.com

  + It's impossible for everything to be true. +