"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> writes:
>> I think you should first trace down what the problem really is --- is
>> your system just misconfigured or is there some fundamental issue that
>> we really ought to answer to?
> The trouble on AIX is, that getaddrinfo only does a nameservice lookup,
> no /etc/hosts.
Wouldn't that break many other programs besides Postgres? But in any
case if your nameserver doesn't resolve localhost, I'd say you'd better
fix your nameserver. See eg, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html
The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in host DNS implementations as having an A
recordpointing to the loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use would conflict with
widelydeployed code which assumes this use.
regards, tom lane
