Re: Firewall Locks Windows Version - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Tino Wildenhain
Subject Re: Firewall Locks Windows Version
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Msg-id 430DD2FD.8050100@wildenhain.de
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In response to Re: Firewall Locks Windows Version  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
Responses Re: Firewall Locks Windows Version
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Andreas Pflug schrieb:
> Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> 
>> improvement.
>>
>> I dont think adding a regex routine just to find out a shortcut
>> for translating a literal string which means an IP-address
>> is worth the effort - think that "professional programmers"
>> take efficiency in account. And adding a bunch of code just
>> for very very rare use cases for a function which should be
>> provided by the OS is rarely effective.
> 
> 
> This is the very single report of DNS lookup problems. Until we added 
> extended information to FAQs, we had complaints about interrupted 
> connections, caused by misconfigured firewalls. We won't change pgAdmins 
> behaviour to catch bad installations, but continue to concentrate on 
> _valuable_ coding. There's enough sensible stuff on the wish list.
> 

Ah, and btw. Skimming thru the code "read professinonalism" (we take
every hint seriously ;)) it appears libpq would be to blame for
calling gethostbyname(). This is even outside of Daves skope.

Regards
Tino


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