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

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Problem with listen_addresses = '*' on 8.4beta2 on AIX
Date
Msg-id 4A2ED181.4050605@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Problem with listen_addresses = '*' on 8.4beta2 on AIX  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Problem with listen_addresses = '*' on 8.4beta2 on AIX  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> writes:
>   
>> Building 8.4beta2 on my AIX test machine works fine,
>> but when I set listen_addresses = '*' in postgresql.conf,
>> the server fails to start.
>>     
>
> I grow weary of AIX's seemingly-unlimited supply of getaddrinfo
> peculiarities.  What about forgetting the whole matter and always
> using our src/port/ implementation on that OS?
>
>             
>   

I'm assuming that the OP has tested that 8.3 works on the same machine 
with listen_addresses = '*'.

If so, then this seems a reasonable suggestion.

cheers

andrew


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