Re: List of hostaddrs not supported

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Mithun Cy <mithun(dot)cy(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: List of hostaddrs not supported
Date: 2017-07-10 09:30:47
Message-ID: 1d62a437-28d1-56ea-93ad-700d0fdbd073@iki.fi
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On 06/09/2017 04:26 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 6:36 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
>> Right. I think it's a usability fail as it is; it certainly fooled me. We
>> could make the error messages and documentation more clear. But even better
>> to allow multiple host addresses, so that it works as you'd expect.
>
> Sure, I don't have a problem with that. I guess part of the point of
> beta releases is to correct things that don't turn out to be as smart
> as we thought they were, and this seems to be an example of that.

I just remembered that this was still pending. I made the documentation
changes, and committed this patch now.

We're uncomfortably close to wrapping the next beta, later today, but I
think it's better to get this into the hands of people testing this,
rather than wait for the next beta. I think the risk of breaking
something that used to work is small.

- Heikki

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