Re: libpq host/hostaddr/conninfo inconsistencies

Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-02-14T21:51:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On 2018-10-26 09:21:51 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>> (1) you are somehow against changing the current implementation, eg erroring
>> out on possibly misleading configurations, because you do not think it is
>> really useful to help users in those cases.
>
> I find this formulation somewhat passive aggressive.

I do not understand what you mean by that expression.

I was just trying to sum-up Robert's opposition to erroring on misleading 
configurations (eg "host=1.2.3.4 hostaddr=4.3.2.1") instead of complying 
to it whatever, as is currently done. Probably my phrasing could be 
improved, but I do not think that I misrepresented Robert's position.

Note that the issue is somehow mitigated by 6e5f8d489a: \conninfo now 
displays a more precise information, so that at least you are not told 
that you are connected to a socket when you a really connected to an ip, 
or to one ip when you a really connected to another.

-- 
Fabien.


Commits

  1. libpq docs: be clearer about conninfo's 'hostaddr'

  2. psql: Show IP address in \conninfo