Re: fix psql \conninfo & \connect when using hostaddr

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Arthur Zakirov <a(dot)zakirov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: fix psql \conninfo & \connect when using hostaddr
Date: 2019-06-12 07:45:48
Message-ID: 20190612074548.GD271415@rfd.leadboat.com
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 01:59:20PM +0200, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 6:46 AM Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:

> > > Although I guess it can be avoided by `-reuse-previous=off`, probably it
> > > makese sense to update the docs.
> >
> > Yep, that is one option. The other is to revert or alter the subtle
> > change, but ISTM that it made sense in some use case, so I wanted some
> > time to think about it and test.
>
> Sure, no one argue that the behaviour should be changed, it's only about the
> documentation part.

No, I was arguing that a behavior should revert back its v11 behavior:

\connect mydb myuser myhost
-- should resolve "myhost" again, like it did in v11
\connect

\connect "dbname=mydb host=myhost hostaddr=127.0.0.1"
-- ok to reuse hostaddr=127.0.0.1; I agree that's a feature
\connect

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