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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml index 5cc81bbe269..c95fc4fd64d 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml @@ -170,11 +170,11 @@ PGconn *PQconnectdbParams(const char **keywords, const char **values, int expand If <literal>host</> is specified without <literal>hostaddr</>, a host name lookup occurs. If <literal>hostaddr</> is specified without <literal>host</>, - the value for <literal>hostaddr</> gives the server address. + the value for <literal>hostaddr</> gives the server network address. The connection attempt will fail in any of the cases where a host name is required. If both <literal>host</> and <literal>hostaddr</> are specified, - the value for <literal>hostaddr</> gives the server address. + the value for <literal>hostaddr</> gives the server network address. The value for <literal>host</> is ignored unless needed for authentication or verification purposes, in which case it will be used as the host name. Note that authentication is likely to fail |