Re: R: Rendezvous/Bonjour broken in 8.1 beta

Just to counter this statement- I am using postgresql mDNSReponder
discovery on Linux.

In my case, I have several "satellite" machines that need to send
events to the database. Zeroconf makes the discovery trivial and I
don't have to worry about network settings.

I would like to see postgresql support this feature natively so that
I could just add a line to postgresql.conf and have it work. I am
currently using howl to do this- howl wraps the Apple libs in Darwin
and hooks into the standard mDNSResponder on other OSs.

Since obviously no one else is working on this, I can work on a patch.

On Sep 9, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Paolo Magnoli" <pmagnoli(at)systemevolution(dot)it> writes:
>
>> Hi, wouldn't it be better to implement rendezvous with a
>> free/open/cross-platform implementation like Howl
>> (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/) which should help
>> avoiding
>> apple's "tricks"?
>>
>
> Why bother? AFAIK, no one cares at all about bonjour unless they are
> running OS X --- and if they are on OS X, switching to howl would just
> mean there's an additional bit of software they have to get.
>
> If this were central to Postgres' purpose, we might feel like doing
> extra work on it; but it's so peripheral that we've already wasted
> more time on it than it's worth. IMHO anyway.
>
> regards, tom lane

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