Adding Rendezvous support to postmaster
От | Chris Campbell |
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Тема | Adding Rendezvous support to postmaster |
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Msg-id | 86EFD8E4-6011-11D7-9D2E-000393147784@bignerdranch.com обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: Adding Rendezvous support to postmaster
Re: Adding Rendezvous support to postmaster Re: Adding Rendezvous support to postmaster Re: Adding Rendezvous support to postmaster |
Список | pgsql-patches |
The attached diffs add Rendezvous support to postmaster when it's running on Darwin (Mac OS X). Rendezvous allows services (such as a database server) to advertise their availability to other hosts on their link-local network, and client programs to browse the services on the network to see what's available. It is Apple's implementation of ZEROCONF. http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/ This allows client programs running on computers that are on the same link-local network as the postgresql server to automatically find the server's IP address and port number. This adds great ease-of-use for end users. I propose adding a configuration variable to postgresql.conf called "service_name" that allows the user to specify the name used to advertise the database service. If this variable isn't defined in the postgresql.conf file, then no service is advertised. If it is '', then the computer's "Rendezvous Name" is used (this is similar to the hostname, see the link below for more info). Otherwise, if it's a non-empty string, that string is used as the name of the service. http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1228.html If there's already a service on the network with that name, then the service registration silently fails and no service is registered. Rendezvous also has the notion of a service type string. It's a bit like a domain name: I suggest we use "_pgsql._tcp." (another example would be "_ftp._tcp."). There's very little code involved: just 1 function call in PostmasterMain() after postmaster has started listening on a TCP socket. And 1 addition to the GUC list of configuration variables. All the code is #ifdef'ed inside HAVE_RENDEZVOUS, which is only defined in src/include/port/darwin.h. Even once we know the OS is darwin, we still need to check to make sure that Rendezvous is available, either by OS version, or by checking for the existence of a needed header file, etc. I've included patches for CVS top-of-tree and postgresql-7.3.2. Thanks! - Chris
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