Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Ouch --- everything is IPv6. Wow, that is unusual. I assumed that
> > folks who have OS's that do that will put IPv6 addresses in pg_hba.conf.
>
> I think that may be reasonable. What bothers me is that the default
> pg_hba.conf will fail to accept localhost connections on such a system.
> OTOH older systems will complain if pg_hba.conf contains IPv6 entries.
>
> We may not have much choice but to find a way to configure pg_hba.conf's
> localhost entries at initdb time ...
Can we allow the IPv6 entries to be in pg_hba.conf but ignore them on
non-IPv6 machines, or allow the connection to fail?
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