Re: Vista/IPv6 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Vista/IPv6
Date
Msg-id 200704111657.36946.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Vista/IPv6  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Vista/IPv6  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 16:46 schrieb Magnus Hagander:
> Point being - if you build on a ipv6 enabled machine, will that binary then
> work at all on a non-ipv6 machine? Consider binaries distributed by the
> installer... Might as well think up the proper fix before we just band-aid
> it for the regression tests..

The check is done by initdb (not on the build machine) and it checks if 
getaddrinfo("::1", ...) works.  If that doesn't work then you don't have IPv6 
for all practical purposes.  So everything seems to be set up all right.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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