Re: 7.4Beta1 "failed to create socket: Address family not - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 7.4Beta1 "failed to create socket: Address family not
Date
Msg-id 27031.1060644576@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 7.4Beta1 "failed to create socket: Address family not  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: 7.4Beta1 "failed to create socket: Address family not  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> There was a big discussion over whether we should require IPv6 to be
> enabled individually, and then throw a hard error if IPv6 fails, but at
> this stage, it seemed best to most to just try IPv6 and soft-fail, while
> throwing a message in the server logs.

The real problem is perhaps that the message gives no hint that it's
talking about being unable to establish an IPv6 socket.  With that hint,
perhaps people would realize that it's not a problem.

            regards, tom lane

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