Re: Problem with listen_addresses = '*' on 8.4beta2 on AIX - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Problem with listen_addresses = '*' on 8.4beta2 on AIX
Date
Msg-id 29730.1244585478@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Problem with listen_addresses = '*' on 8.4beta2 on AIX  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Problem with listen_addresses = '*' on 8.4beta2 on AIX  ("Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The only serious knock I can see on our implementation is that it lacks
>> IPv6 support. �So we'd not want to use it on AIX versions that are
>> IPv6-capable. �Which are those, if any, and do they have any of these
>> getaddrinfo issues?

> actually, aix was the first commercial unix distribution to support
> ipv6 afaik...as of 4.3 iirc.

Drat.  Okay, that easy solution probably won't fly.  Anyone with AIX
access want to try to develop a patch that covers this case without
breaking the other ones?
        regards, tom lane


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