pierce@hogranch.com (John R Pierce) writes:
> On 06/23/10 6:02 PM, Chris Browne wrote:
>> There is already an FAQ on issues relating to AIX. It is, in recent
>> versions, part of the documentation tree:
>>
>> <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/installation-platform-notes.html>
>>
>
> can I take this opportunity to point out a problem on that page?
>
> In "5.8.1.3. Internet address issues", the bit about ..
>
> # ifconfig lo0 inet6 ::1/0 delete
>
>
> In 6.1, localhost may fail to come up at all when you next reboot
> after you do that. I had to recreate the ipv6 localhost before it
> would work correctly. I haven't investigated any farther.
Here's a patch that makes this more version-sensitive.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index cd3755b..55d7329 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 +2291,14 @@ hosts=local4,bind4
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
+
+ <warning> <para> This seemed to work on AIX version 5.3, but is
+ not an elegant solution to the problem. Others have reported that
+ this removal of IPv6 support caused problems on AIX 6.1,
+ specifically that this <quote>solution</quote> caused loss of
+ localhost. </para>
+ </warning>
+
</sect3>
<sect3>
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