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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Feike Steenbergen <feikesteenbergen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Feature: Use DNS SRV records for connecting
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Feike Steenbergen <feikesteenbergen@gmail.com> writes:
> I'd like to get some feedback on whether or not implementing a DNS SRV f=
eature
> for connecting to PostgreSQL would be desirable/useful.

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.

			regards, tom lane