Re: Feature request: ability to set hostaddr

Le 12/03/2011 10:37, Guillaume Lelarge a écrit :
> Le 06/03/2011 12:15, Christopher Head a écrit :
>> On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:30:42 +0100
>> Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Le 02/03/2011 07:45, Christopher Head a écrit :
>>>> [...]
>>>> I'd like to request the ability to set hostaddr separately from host
>>>> when creating a server connection. This is currently impossible.
>>>
>>> Could you remind me why this would be interesting? AFAIR, they are
>>> pretty much the same thing, aren't they?
>>>
>>
>> Use case: "host" is set to the actual name of the database server so it
>> can fully verify an SSL certificate, "hostaddr" is set to the IP
>> address of some box acting as a tunnel without which a connection to
>> the database server is impossible. I'm sure there are others, but
>> that's mine.
>>
>
> OK, I created a ticket to work on it later.
>

See patch attached. If you can test it, it would be great.


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