Re: [PATCH] libpq: try all addresses for a host before moving to next on target_session_attrs mismatch

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
Cc: Evgeny Kuzin <evgeny(dot)kuzin(at)outlook(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libpq: try all addresses for a host before moving to next on target_session_attrs mismatch
Date: 2026-03-11 19:44:36
Message-ID: d7b042e3470d69966c7a4745c2bb35272f15591d.camel@cybertec.at
Views: Whole Thread | Raw Message | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, 2026-03-11 at 15:01 +0500, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> > On 11 Mar 2026, at 03:18, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
> >
> > The question is whether the overall benefits of your proposal (which certainly makes sense
> > in a setup like you describe) would be worth a performance and resource usage regression like
> > the one I described above.  Or can you see a way to modify your approach so that that problem
> > can be avoided?
>
> Version proposed by Andrew Jackson [0] adds a connection option check_all_addrs. Off by default.
> This resolves potential problems of existing users.

Ah, ok, I didn't read the patch. If resolving all addresses is disabled by default and
has to be enabled explicitly, I have no objection.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Andrew Dunstan 2026-03-11 19:50:23 Re: support fast default for domain with constraints
Previous Message Nazir Bilal Yavuz 2026-03-11 19:22:18 Re: Speed up COPY FROM text/CSV parsing using SIMD