Re: Feature request: ability to set hostaddr

Le 06/03/2011 12:15, Christopher Head a écrit :
> On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:30:42 +0100
> Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Le 02/03/2011 07:45, Christopher Head a écrit :
>>> [...]
>>> I'd like to request the ability to set hostaddr separately from host
>>> when creating a server connection. This is currently impossible.
>>
>> Could you remind me why this would be interesting? AFAIR, they are
>> pretty much the same thing, aren't they?
>>
>
> Use case: "host" is set to the actual name of the database server so it
> can fully verify an SSL certificate, "hostaddr" is set to the IP
> address of some box acting as a tunnel without which a connection to
> the database server is impossible. I'm sure there are others, but
> that's mine.
>

OK, I created a ticket to work on it later.

Thanks.

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