Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> I suggest that we document hostaddr as being an auxiliary field that is
>> not intended to be the primary source of the host name, but merely saves
>> libpq from having to do a forward DNS lookup. In some cases it will
>> work to supply hostaddr without host, but in others it won't. We should
>> also state that supplying it does not guarantee no DNS lookups occur,
>> because these external auth libraries will do one anyway.
> That sounds like it implies we'd also remove the check which prevents
> Kerberos from being used and fix it to use hostaddr if host is null.
Uh, no, it implies no such thing. I don't think that's a "fix", it's
merely fuzzing what the values are for.
Magnus, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this...
regards, tom lane