Re: Broken SSL tests in master

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Broken SSL tests in master
Date: 2016-12-02 01:26:49
Message-ID: 25490.1480642009@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Correct, but I'm defining that as user error. If hostaddr is
>> specified, host is not used to decide what to connect to, so it makes
>> no sense for it to be a string of multiple host names. If we allowed
>> multiple hostaddrs, as has been proposed, then we'd need to be more
>> clever about this.

> Would it be better to return NULL instead then.

That would likely just result in application core dumps.
See notes for commit 490cb21f7. I think we've established an expectation
that only a NULL argument will elicit a NULL return from PQhost.

regards, tom lane

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