alvherre@commandprompt.com (Alvaro Herrera) writes:
> Excerpts from Chris Browne's message of jue jun 24 14:40:30 -0400 2010:
>> robertmhaas@gmail.com (Robert Haas) writes:
>> > This patch makes it clear that the workaround is no good on AIX 6.1,
>> > but it doesn't seem quite clear about whether the underlying problem
>> > has been fixed in AIX 6.1. It would be good to understand that.
>>
>> Better?
>
> Empty diff?
Oops. Hopefully this is less empty.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index cd3755b..bde60ce 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -2257,7 +2257,7 @@ kill `cat /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`
would <quote>mysteriously</quote> not come up successfully. This
appears to be the result of unexpected behavior in the IPv6
implementation. It looks like PostgreSQL and IPv6 do not play
- very well together at this time on AIX.
+ very well together on AIX 5.3.
</para>
<para>
@@ -2291,6 +2291,16 @@ hosts=local4,bind4
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
+
+ <warning> <para> This is really a workaround of problems relating
+ to immaturity of IPv6 support, which improved visibly during the
+ course of AIX 5.3 releases. It has worked with AIX version 5.3,
+ but does not represent an elegant solution to the problem. It has
+ been reported that this workaround is not only unnecessary, but
+ causes problems on AIX 6.1, where IPv6 support has become more
+ mature. </para>
+ </warning>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
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