Re: Messed up dblink...

Jerry LeVan <jerry.levan@eku.edu> writes:
> Something seems to have messed up my dblink interface...
> The only thing I can think that has changed the last week
> was the installation of 8.3.7.

What version were you using beforehand?  Are you *sure* nothing else in
your environment has changed?

> levan=# select dblink_connect('host=mbp user=levan dbname=levan
> password=foobar')
> levan-# ;
> ERROR:  could not establish connection
> DETAIL:  could not translate host name "mbp" to address: Temporary
> failure in name resolution

... because it is really, really hard to see how that particular
failure could arise from anything except a broken DNS configuration.

Try "nslookup mbp" at the shell command prompt.  If that fails with
a similar error message, Postgres is not at fault.

            regards, tom lane