Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I was wondering that. I am unclear if we need it though --- can we not
> > assume inet_ntop() exists on all systems? We assumed inet_ntoa() did.
>
> The Single Unix Spec includes inet_ntoa but not inet_ntop.
>
> > Of course, the buildfarm will tell us.
>
> The buildfarm unfortunately contains only a subset of the platforms
> we care about. I don't think this problem is large enough to justify
> taking a portability risk by depending on non-SUS library functions.
>
> If you want to do this, please do it as suggested previously, ie depend
> on the copy of the code we have internally.
I assume you are suggesting to use our inet_net_ntop() even if the
system has inet_ntop().
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