Re: could not create IPv6 socket ! - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: could not create IPv6 socket !
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Msg-id 13236.1127578898@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: could not create IPv6 socket !  (Aldor <an@mediaroot.de>)
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Aldor <an@mediaroot.de> writes:
>> LOG: could not create IPv6 socket: Address family not supported by protocol

> i also get this error message but only at one of my database servers.
> I'm not sure, but I have experienced some other IPv6 issues on the same
> server. I think somebody turned on the IPv6 protocole on the server and
> didn't declare in postgres the IPv6 address.

Actually, what this suggests is that your kernel doesn't support IPv6
but userland libraries (getaddrinfo() in particular) think it does.
It's pretty harmless and you could just ignore it, unless of course
you actually need to use IPv6 ...

            regards, tom lane

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