Re: Dotted-quad server name

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> I notice that while the Insight Win-32 ODBC drivers at around v 7.01.0006
> allowed a numeric (dotted-quad) address in the server name field, the current
> drivers (8.01.0200) don't: it has to be a symbolic name.

I got around this by running a slave copy of bind (named) on each Postgres
server, the client can be configured in one place to refer to this if the main
server is down.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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