From: pgsql-hackers-ow...@postgresql.org > [mailto:pgsql-hackers-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Karlsson > On 11/24/2016 10:38 PM, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > > To me it feels like the proper fix would be to make PQHost() return > > the value of the host parameter rather than the hostaddr (maybe add a > > new field in the pg_conn_host struct). But would be a behaviour change > > which might break someones application. Thoughts? > > I have attached a proof of concept patch for this. Remaining work is > investigating all the callers of PQhost() and see if any of them are > negatively affected by this patch and cleaning up the code some.
I agree that pg_conn_host should have hostaddr in addition to host, and PQhost() return host when host is specified with/without hostaddr specified. However, I wonder whether the hostaddr parameter should also accept multiple IP addresses. Currently, it accepts only one address as follows. I asked Robert and Mithun about this, but I forgot about that. static bool connectOptions2(PGconn *conn) { /* * Allocate memory for details about each host to which we might possibly * try to connect. If pghostaddr is set, we're only going to try to * connect to that one particular address. If it's not, we'll use pghost, * which may contain multiple, comma-separated names. */ Regards Takayuki Tsunakawa -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers