Re: [bug fix] psql's \conninfo reports incorrect destination on Windows

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:00 PM, MauMau <maumau307@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: "Fujii Masao" <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
>
>> I think that 77035fa8a92d8c39f4c689e54f46813f203f09a8 fixed this problem.
>> Please check that.
>
>
> I looked through your patch.  I'm fine with the PQhostaddr().  I didn't
> notice the problem when hostaddr was passed to psql on Windows.
>
> OTOH, regarding PQhost(), I think we had better take my patch.
> connectOptions2() computes and set derived values to PGconn, so that
> PGconn's members have values which are actually used for connection.  To
> follow that rule, PGconn->pghost may as well have "localhost" on machines
> without UNIX domain sockets.

I'm not sure if we should follow that rule. As far as I read the libpq code,
at least connectFailureMessage() and connectDBStart() do the same things
as PQhost() does now.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao