On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > While I was investigaing PQhost() for that approach, I found several > problems of PQhost(). > > (1) PQhost() can return Unix-domain socket directory path even in the > platform that > doesn't support Unix-domain socket. > > (2) In the platform that doesn't support Unix-domain socket, when > neither host nor hostaddr > are specified, the default host 'localhost' is used to connect to > the server and > PQhost() must return that, but it doesn't.
I think changing PQhost() so that it returns DefaultHost rather than conn->pgunixsocket when we don't HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS is a back-patchable bug fix, and I'd say go for it. > (3) PQhost() cannot return the hostaddr. However, I'm much less sure whether this is something that we want to do at all. It seems like this might be a definition of what the function does, and I'm not sure whether the new definition is what everyone will want. On the other hand, I'm also not sure that it isn't. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers