| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Stark <greg(dot)stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: SSL over Unix-domain sockets |
| Date: | 2009-03-27 16:40:02 |
| Message-ID: | 21516.1238172002@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> But there is `hostname` and `hostname --fqdn`, both of which are well-defined
>> independent of a connection.
> But they aren't guaranteed to return anything useful, and IME often don't.
I think "well defined" is stretching it anyway. I see different
behaviors (partially or fully qualified hostname) on my different Unix
machines. --fqdn appears particularly useless, as Fedora 10 reports
this:
$ hostname --fqdn
localhost.localdomain
and my other machines don't recognize the switch at all.
regards, tom lane
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