Thread: PostgreSQL + windows xp + ipv6

> Hi, I am with problems to function postgreSQL 8.0.3 in
> windows XP with the Ipv6 protocol. I try to have access the
> bank in the following way:
> psql -h ::1 -d db_teste -u postgres
> but it gives an error: could not translate ::1: Unknown host.
> already I configured the archive pg_hba.conf so that it has
> accepted address::1 of ipv6. My machine is effecting ping6 in
> ::1 and my apache server also is functioning in ipv6. I made
> everything what it said in the manual. My question is the
> following one: PostgreSQL does not function in windows XP
> with the Ipv6 protocol, or has that to configure plus some
> thing? Or It only functions in linux?

For one thing, the binary installer is not compiled with ipv6 support. I
am unsure of wether it works at all - I don't know of anybody who has
tried it. But to even try it, you need to build from source.

//Magnus