I asked this question because I have a situation where a service like this would be very useful. If such a functionality would be accepted by the core team, I am willing to work on it.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:50 PM > To: Gevik Babakhani > Cc: 'PGSQL Hackers' > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL network discovery > > Gevik Babakhani wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There is a nice little feature within MSSQL where it is possible to > > enumerate all MSSQL servers on the local network. > > I wonder how this can be made possible with PG. Pinging every > > IP:PGPORT within the current subnet is one of the options > but I guess > > that would be just a bad solution. Any thoughts? > > We have rendezvous support too. We need to update it to use > the newer Avahi library, but the one person who proposed > using the thread interface got scolded for that and fled :-) > The interface we'd need to use is complex and the patch would > be a lot bigger. > > If you want to work on it, you're welcome to do so :-) > > -- > Alvaro Herrera > http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ > PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
