From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Jerry LeVan <jerry(dot)levan(at)eku(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Messed up dblink... |
Date: | 2009-03-21 16:37:48 |
Message-ID: | 23239.1237653468@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jerry LeVan <jerry(dot)levan(at)eku(dot)edu> writes:
> Something seems to have messed up my dblink interface...
> The only thing I can think that has changed the last week
> was the installation of 8.3.7.
What version were you using beforehand? Are you *sure* nothing else in
your environment has changed?
> levan=# select dblink_connect('host=mbp user=levan dbname=levan
> password=foobar')
> levan-# ;
> ERROR: could not establish connection
> DETAIL: could not translate host name "mbp" to address: Temporary
> failure in name resolution
... because it is really, really hard to see how that particular
failure could arise from anything except a broken DNS configuration.
Try "nslookup mbp" at the shell command prompt. If that fails with
a similar error message, Postgres is not at fault.
regards, tom lane
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