Re: Pg V10: Patch for bug in bonjour support

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Luke Lonergan <luke(at)brightforge(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pg V10: Patch for bug in bonjour support
Date: 2017-11-09 15:40:31
Message-ID: 9803.1510242031@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Is there really much interest in Bonjour support on non-macOS platforms?
>> I hadn't heard that anybody but Apple was invested in it.

> Not from me. My only interest here was to pipe up because I knew that
> what was originally proposed would have broken stuff on macOS, and
> after that piqued curiosity. I won't mind at all if you revert the
> commit to prevent confusion. If the intersection of FreeBSD,
> PostgreSQL and Bonjour users is a non-empty set, [s]he might at least
> find this archived discussion useful...

Not hearing anyone else speaking up for this, I'll go revert the
configure change, and instead put in a comment pointing out that
Avahi support would require a lot more than an extra -l switch.

regards, tom lane

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