On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:33 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Sure, you only need it if you want to bypass DNS lookup, but if you > do that, you don't necessarily need to give "host" as well. Changing > the documentation to imply that you do would not be an improvement.
>From my point of view, the issue here is that the way the documentation is written right now tends to lead people to believe that if they have a host name, they must pass it via host, and if they have an IP address, they must pass it via hostaddr. Thus pgAdmin 3, at least, had code to check whether the input looked like an IP address and put it into one field or the other accordingly. And that's stupid. My feeling is that it doesn't really matter whether people think that both host and hostaddr are required. What's more important is that they understand that whatever form of host identifier they've got can be put in host, and that hostaddr doesn't normally need to be set at all. That's less clear than it could be at present. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
