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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: FreeBSD Thread-safe functions ...
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Msg-id 2577.1063594889@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to FreeBSD Thread-safe functions ...  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
Responses Re: FreeBSD Thread-safe functions ...  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> FreeBSD 5.x has a getpwuid_r function that should be used ... and, the
> word I got from one of the developers was that getaddrinfo(3) should be
> used instead of gethostbyname ...

Hm.  A quick grep shows that our *only* use of gethostbyname is in
src/port/getaddrinfo.c.  Seems like we should omit this "porting
requirement" on platforms that have getaddrinfo.
        regards, tom lane

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