Re: 7.4Beta1 "failed to create socket: Address family not

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Creager <Robert_Creager(at)LogicalChaos(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.4Beta1 "failed to create socket: Address family not
Date: 2003-08-12 13:59:03
Message-ID: 1220.1060696743@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The real problem is perhaps that the message gives no hint that it's
>> talking about being unable to establish an IPv6 socket. With that hint,
>> perhaps people would realize that it's not a problem.

> Not sure who took it out, but it gone. The original message was:
> elog(LOG, "IPv6 support disabled --- perhaps the kernel does not support IPv6");

That seems both wordy and not necessarily accurate. What I had in mind
was more like

"could not create IPv6 socket: %m"

But I still wonder whether we shouldn't suppress the message entirely,
at least for EAFNOSUPPORT errors.

regards, tom lane

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