Re: Adding Rendezvous support to postmaster

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > I also _didn't_ add the Rendezvous GUC variable, so we default to the
> > > host name. If there is need, we can add it later.
> >
> > How do you figure there is not need for it? What about running more
> > than one postmaster at a time?
>
> No one brought up that idea, and Chris agreed we could try it without
> it. Chris, is that an issue? I see the port number in the Rendezvous
> function call:
>
> if (service_name != NULL)
> {
> DNSServiceRegistrationCreate(NULL, /* default to hostname */
> "_postgresql._tcp.",
> "",
> htonl(PostPortNumber),
> "",
> (DNSServiceRegistrationReply)reg_reply,
> NULL);

Two more issues --- first, I changed 'pgsql' to 'postgresql' as the
service name, to match our registered TCP service name. Second, if we
do add a GUC variable, it has to conditionally be included in
postgresql.conf.sample if Rendezvous is enabled.

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