Re: IPv6 patch

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, Rocco Altier <RoccoA(at)Routescape(dot)com>, Nigel Kukard <nkukard(at)lbsd(dot)net>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: IPv6 patch
Date: 2003-01-07 17:22:27
Message-ID: 200301071722.h07HMRm26557@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > We already do. The issue is what way should we give admins to _fail_ if
> > IPv6 doesn't start.
>
> What is "IPv6 doesn't start"? Either the machine has IPv6 addresses,
> or it doesn't. It is not our job to notify the DBA what the addresses
> on his machine are.

You can fight it out with Peter. I have no problem silently falling
back to IPv4 if people are happy with that.

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