Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?
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Msg-id 3583.24.211.141.25.1063192158.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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In response to Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian said:
>
> Are all the IPv6 issues resolved in current CVS?
>

This one appears to be, at any rate.

cheers

andrew


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> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> > OK, now we are getting somewhere. I see that this would work. It's a
>> > bit  ugly, though - with this plan the sample file in both CVS and
>> > the  installation won't necessarily be what actually get put in
>> > place.
>>
>> Well, like I said, it's not real pretty.  But the same is already true
>> of postgresql.conf.sample --- initdb edits that.  I don't see that
>> having it edit pg_hba.conf.sample too is so bad.
>>
>> > What if some clever installer/administrator deliberately alters
>> > their installed sample file?
>>
>> I don't think it would hurt them.  The editing will consist of a sed
>> script to comment or uncomment the line containg ::1, it wouldn't
>> touch anything else.
>>
>> > Could we get the configure script to do it instead, since it too
>> > should  know about ip6 capability? (I guess then we'd have
>> > pg_hba.conf.sample.in). That strikes me as being a lot cleaner.
>>
>> Bruce and I talked about that alternative too, but we felt that it
>> made more sense to keep the processing of pg_hba.conf.sample parallel
>> to what happens to postgresql.conf.sample.  Further down the road we
>> might need initdb-time checks to decide what to do to the sample file,
>> just as we already need for postgresql.conf.sample.
>>
>>             regards, tom lane
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