Re: PostgreSQL network discovery

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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> Alvaro Herrera                                
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