Just to counter this statement- I am using postgresql mDNSReponder
discovery on Linux.
In my case, I have several "satellite" machines that need to send
events to the database. Zeroconf makes the discovery trivial and I
don't have to worry about network settings.
I would like to see postgresql support this feature natively so that
I could just add a line to postgresql.conf and have it work. I am
currently using howl to do this- howl wraps the Apple libs in Darwin
and hooks into the standard mDNSResponder on other OSs.
Since obviously no one else is working on this, I can work on a patch.
On Sep 9, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
"Paolo Magnoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi, wouldn't it be better to implement rendezvous with a
free/open/cross-platform implementation like Howl
(http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/) which should help
avoiding
apple's "tricks"?
Why bother? AFAIK, no one cares at all about bonjour unless they are
running OS X --- and if they are on OS X, switching to howl would just
mean there's an additional bit of software they have to get.
If this were central to Postgres' purpose, we might feel like doing
extra work on it; but it's so peripheral that we've already wasted
more time on it than it's worth. IMHO anyway.
regards, tom lane
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