On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:35:55 -0400 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > Do the docs need any more updating? > > No doubt, but it's a bit premature to consider that while we're still > arguing whether the code needs to change more. > > regards, tom lane > Sorry to bother everyone, but AFAICT this discussion kind of disappeared. Did I perhaps get dropped from CC? I'm interested to know what the final resolution of this is. My own thought would be: "host" means the thing you intended to connect to: a unique identifier for the server, probably (usually) the hostname, and also the thing that goes in a certificate. Should (probably) never be omitted. "hostaddr" means the thing you actually send your TCP SYN packet to: maybe an IP address if you want to save a DNS lookup, maybe even "localhost" if you want to use an SSH tunnel (or even some other hostname if you have an even stranger tunnel set up), but purely a "network-layer" thing about *how to get to* the server, and not a "user-trust-layer" thing about *who the server is*. If omitted, defaults to being equal to "host". I don't know if that's what was intended, but that's what I thought they would mean. Chris -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
