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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: LibPQ doesn't say host=* translates to localhost
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Msg-id 1987630.1719593801@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: LibPQ doesn't say host=* translates to localhost  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: LibPQ doesn't say host=* translates to localhost  (Francisco Olarte <folarte@peoplecall.com>)
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> Good catch.

> ping '*'
> ping: *: Name or service not known

> This is Ubuntu.

Yeah, I see the same on a couple different Red Hat versions.  Very
interesting, since it implies that ping is using something other than
getaddrinfo(3) to resolve the hostname.  I'm not quite interested
enough to go find out what, though.

            regards, tom lane

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