"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> FreeBSD 5.x has a getpwuid_r function that should be used ... and, the
> word I got from one of the developers was that getaddrinfo(3) should be
> used instead of gethostbyname ...

Hm.  A quick grep shows that our *only* use of gethostbyname is in
src/port/getaddrinfo.c.  Seems like we should omit this "porting
requirement" on platforms that have getaddrinfo.

                        regards, tom lane

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