"Robert J. Sanford, Jr." <rsanford(at)nolimitsystems(dot)com> writes:
> i have to say that i don't understand why psql could not see the servers
> without this. actually, i'm guessing from previous emails that it isn't
> psql but one of the system libs that psql uses that needs some addresses
> to be explicity mapped. i just don't understand.
Me either. You'd likely have more luck asking about it in an OS X
hackers' forum than here, though. Just tell 'em the program is trying
to look up so-and-so with gethostbyname(), and getting a failure return.
regards, tom lane