Re: Patch: update Bonjour support to the newer non-deprecated API

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Patch: update Bonjour support to the newer non-deprecated API
Date: 2009-09-07 17:31:54
Message-ID: 7994.1252344714@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 12:50:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The two possibilities for that seem to be to change the meaning of
>> bonjour_name = '' (have it mean "no advertisement" instead of
>> "default to service name = computer's name"), or to add a separate
>> boolean GUC. If the latter, is the default 'on' or 'off'?
>> Opinions?

> +1 for separate boolean GUC, default off. I know extra GUCs aren't
> great, but I don't see another way :/

Yeah, the default service name seems like a potentially useful behavior
in some contexts, so taking that behavior away doesn't seem nice.
Separate bool it is...

regards, tom lane

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