I asked this question because I have a situation where a service like this
would be very useful. If such a functionality would be accepted by the core
team, I am willing to work on it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@commandprompt.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:50 PM
> To: Gevik Babakhani
> Cc: 'PGSQL Hackers'
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL network discovery
>
> Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is a nice little feature within MSSQL where it is possible to
> > enumerate all MSSQL servers on the local network.
> > I wonder how this can be made possible with PG. Pinging every
> > IP:PGPORT within the current subnet is one of the options
> but I guess
> > that would be just a bad solution. Any thoughts?
>
> We have rendezvous support too. We need to update it to use
> the newer Avahi library, but the one person who proposed
> using the thread interface got scolded for that and fled :-)
> The interface we'd need to use is complex and the patch would
> be a lot bigger.
>
> If you want to work on it, you're welcome to do so :-)
>
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