Thread: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Work around reported problem that AIX's getaddrinfo() doesn't

This change has broken my AIX 5.2 buildfarm machine (asp/kookaburra),
but doesn't seem to break the 5.3 member (grebe).

It appears to have problems with stats being off now?

What can I do to help debug the situation?
-rocco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-committers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-committers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:27 PM
> To: pgsql-committers@postgresql.org
> Subject: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Work around reported problem
> that AIX's getaddrinfo() doesn't
>
>
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Work around reported problem that AIX's getaddrinfo() doesn't
> seem to zero
> sin_port in the returned IP address struct when servname is
> NULL.  This has
> been observed to cause failure to bind the stats collection
> socket, and
> could perhaps cause other issues too.  Per reports from Brad Nicholson
> and Chris Browne.
>
> Modified Files:
> --------------
>     pgsql/src/backend/libpq:
>         ip.c (r1.36 -> r1.37)
>
> (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/
libpq/ip.c.diff?r1=1.36&r2=1.37)

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"Rocco Altier" <RoccoA@routescape.com> writes:
> This change has broken my AIX 5.2 buildfarm machine (asp/kookaburra),
> but doesn't seem to break the 5.3 member (grebe).

Sigh, count on IBM to make life complicated.

Instead of hacking servname, I suppose we will have to poke the correct
value into sin_port afterwards.  Would you check on the names of the
port fields in the IPv4 and IPv6 cases?  (It might be s6_port or some
such for IPv6.)
        regards, tom lane