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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