Re: Adding Rendezvous support to postmaster

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris Campbell <chris(at)bignerdranch(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Adding Rendezvous support to postmaster
Date: 2003-03-30 20:09:56
Message-ID: 5367.1049054996@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chris Campbell <chris(at)bignerdranch(dot)com> writes:
> On Thursday, Mar 27, 2003, at 02:04 US/Eastern, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'd object to adding a Microsoft-specific patch of this ilk, and so
>> I'm having a moral problem with approving of an Apple-specific one...
>> can you offer us a platform-independent solution?

> Apple's Rendezvous implementation is open-source. Specifically, the
> mDNSResponder program and associated API that makes ZEROCONF do its
> thing. So this patch isn't platform-dependent but API-dependent, and
> anyone could build mDNSResponder on their system to make this API
> available.

Well, fair enough. I concur with the other comment that the
appropriate configure test should be added, though.

regards, tom lane

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