Re: pgsql: Document the all-balls IPv6 address. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

On 03/18/2011 09:18 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  wrote:
>> +<literal>0.0.0.0/0</literal>  (<quote>all balls</>) represents all
>> +       IPv4 addresses, and<literal>::</literal>  represents
>> +       all IPv6 addresses.
>>
>> Umm, isn't there a missing netmask there? The IPv6 analog of 0.0.0.0/0 is
>> surely ::/0 (or I would usually write it ::0/0).
> "all balls" seems like a colloquialism best avoided in our documentation.
>

It's already there, although I agree it's infelicitous.

cheers

andrew