Re: non-ipv6 vs hostnames - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: non-ipv6 vs hostnames
Date
Msg-id 26241.1313503969@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to non-ipv6 vs hostnames  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: non-ipv6 vs hostnames
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Accidentally specifying an IPv6 address in pg_hba.conf on a system
> that doesn't have ipv6 support gives the following error:

> LOG:  specifying both host name and CIDR mask is invalid: "::1/128"

> Which is obviously wrong, because I didn't do that. Do we need to
> detect and special-case ipv6 addresses in this case?

Doesn't really seem worth going out of our way for that.  Systems with
no IPv6 support are a dying breed, and will be more so by the time 9.2
gets deployed.
        regards, tom lane


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