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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Add statistics_collector_listen_addresses to fix hard-coding of "localhost"
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Msg-id 201111091506.pA9F61m08906@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Add statistics_collector_listen_addresses to fix hard-coding of "localhost"  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Add statistics_collector_listen_addresses to fix hard-coding of "localhost"  (Robert Young <yayooo@gmail.com>)
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Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> On Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:38:02 PM Robert Young wrote:
> > What Would Happen if I got NO "localhost" entry in my /etc/hosts ?
> Why should pg cater for such a broken configuration? Sorry for being harsh but
> that seems like it would end in heaps of workarounds.

Do we throw at least a log message warning if localhost isn't resolved?
If not, we should.  (I don't want to break my OS to test this.)

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