| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Bug List <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: LibPQ doesn't say host=* translates to localhost |
| Date: | 2024-06-27 20:42:51 |
| Message-ID: | 1860173.1719520971@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The documentation [0] doesn't say this should work and general networking
> knowledge leads me to believe it wouldn't [1].
> PGHOST='*' psql postgres
> psql (17beta1)
Seems to be an undocumented glibc-ism. That works for me on RHEL8,
but not on macOS:
$ psql -h '*'
psql: error: could not translate host name "*" to address: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
The POSIX spec for getaddrinfo(3) doesn't suggest it should
work, either.
regards, tom lane
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