Re: Add statistics_collector_listen_addresses to fix hard-coding of "localhost"

From: Robert Young <yayooo(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Add statistics_collector_listen_addresses to fix hard-coding of "localhost"
Date: 2011-10-27 12:57:26
Message-ID: CAJjz_NgWTo_VEhk2os_S1cbXRojP1dZfYozMWSHuH_BU918SpQ@mail.gmail.com
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But,I think insistence of hard-coding should be even worse than broken
configuration.
And hard-coding should never be a good work ethics of a professional programmer.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:12, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> On Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:38:02 PM Robert Young wrote:
>> What Would Happen if I got NO "localhost" entry in my /etc/hosts ?
> Why should pg cater for such a broken configuration? Sorry for being harsh but
> that seems like it would end in heaps of workarounds.
>
> Andres
>

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