Ah, gotcha! I guess whatever sample I was originally copying from used hostaddr for some reason.. Thanks for the clarification, Tom!
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Mike Christensen <m...@kitchenpc.com> writes: > > Though I'm a bit curious why there's a host and hostaddr. Why can't it > > just resolve whatever you give it? > > Well, it will ... if you use the "host" parameter. The whole point of > "hostaddr" is that for that parameter, it will not try a DNS lookup. > You'd only use that if you had issues with the speed or reliability > of your DNS service. > > regards, tom lane >