On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 4:26 PM David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, November 24, 2023, Ron Johnson <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> The second "way" sounds interesting, but what is it filled with? >> > > What does it matter? It’s an internal detail that apparently gets exposed > as [unknown] appearing in your log file where the client ip address would > normally be. > Because I'd hope that the log file would tell me the errant host name. > >> I added "log_hostname = on" to postgresql.conf earlier in the day. When >> I commented that out, the errors stopped happening. >> > > This makes sense. > But is not explanatory. I want to see host names in the log file when possible, not just IP addresses. In pg_hba.conf. all application servers are either IP addresses, or names that are explicitly defined in /etc/hosts.
