Re: Feature request: ability to set hostaddr

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.

Chris