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From: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Feike Steenbergen <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Feature: Use DNS SRV records for connecting
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:01:43 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
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Hi,

On 2019-08-13 10:43:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> How would we get at that data without writing our own DNS client?
> (AFAIK, our existing DNS interactions are all handled by getnameinfo()
> or other library-supplied functions.)

> Maybe that'd be worth doing, but it sounds like a lot of work and a
> lot of new code to maintain, relative to the value of the feature.

It might have enough independent advantages to make it worthwhile
though.

Right now our non-blocking interfaces aren't actually in a number of
cases, due to name resolution being blocking. While that's documented,
it imo means that our users need to use a non-blocking DNS library, if
they need non-blocking PQconnectPoll() - it's imo not that practical to
just use IPs in most cases.

We also don't have particularly good control over the order of hostnames
returned by getaddrinfo, which makes it harder to implement reliable
round-robin etc.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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