Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com> writes:
> Though I'm a bit curious why there's a host and hostaddr. Why can't it
> just resolve whatever you give it?
Well, it will ... if you use the "host" parameter. The whole point of
"hostaddr" is that for that parameter, it will not try a DNS lookup.
You'd only use that if you had issues with the speed or reliability
of your DNS service.
regards, tom lane