Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
True, but isn't that because we fail to document at all that you can put an IP address in "host"? Which your proposed patch didn't change, IIRC. regards, tom lane