Re: IPv6 patch

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 17:24:41
Message-ID: 200301071724.h07HOfN26825@candle.pha.pa.us
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Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
>
> --On Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:20:31 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> 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.
> In the UnixWare case, you can't even find out if there is an IPv6 address,
> and
> the API returns a wierd error, IIRC.

I don't think we care about how IPv6 fails in our code --- we just fall
back to IPv4.

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