Re: 7.4Beta1 "failed to create socket: Address family not - Mailing list pgsql-general

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The real problem is perhaps that the message gives no hint that it's
>> talking about being unable to establish an IPv6 socket.  With that hint,
>> perhaps people would realize that it's not a problem.

> Not sure who took it out, but it gone.  The original message was:
>   elog(LOG, "IPv6 support disabled --- perhaps the kernel does not support IPv6");

That seems both wordy and not necessarily accurate.  What I had in mind
was more like

    "could not create IPv6 socket: %m"

But I still wonder whether we shouldn't suppress the message entirely,
at least for EAFNOSUPPORT errors.

            regards, tom lane