Re: Avahi support for Postgresql

Am Dienstag, 27. November 2007 schrieb Mathias Hasselmann:
> I don't know, if the 4th patch adding subtypes describing Postgresql's
> capabilities is wanted by the Postgresql community. Being a desktop guy,
> using Postgresql as embedded database, I'd really like to see all of the
> patches merged, but I could imagine some opposition against the verbose
> nature of the subtypes patch.

I am not convinced about the usefulness of the subtypes patch.  The examples
you cite -- FTP, bittorrent, distcc -- are cases where a client could pick
the most appropriate server from a set of equivalent instances.  I don't see
how this can be useful in a PostgreSQL setting, at least not based on the
parameters server version and protocol version that you implemented.

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Peter Eisentraut
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