On 11/01/11 1:04 AM, Robert Young wrote:
>> 3.Client applications hard-coding "localhost".
>> > 4.PG hard-coding "localhost".
> Since They are equivalent,the answer is obvious:
> Both #3 and #4 are wrong.
as Tom Lane already said, and I'll quote again..
> Look, we will explain this once more. Postgres is entitled to assume
> that "localhost" means the local machine; there are Internet standards
> saying so. On the other hand, client applications that assume the
> database server is on the same machine they are on are definitely
> broken, and need to be fixed.
anyways, this is NOT a postgresql bug, so this is the wrong list for
this discussion.
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