Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2006 19:30 schrieb Tom Lane:
>> I don't see a good
>> reason why we shouldn't let people use DNS names.
> I generally support this, but I wonder if this could have strange
> effects if a name resolves to more than one IP address or even an IPv4
> and an IPv6 address.
That's a good point: we'd have to be prepared to match the actual remote
IP address to more than one return value from getaddrinfo, so the change
wouldn't be a one-liner after all. It still seems like a pretty
localized change though.
regards, tom lane
