Re: IPv6 patch

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > > However, the server log messages stating an IPv6 socket was
> > not made is
> > > > only printed if the binary supports IPv6. The message seems to be a
> > > > compromise between those who wanted a separate IPv6 GUC/flag and those
> > > > who wanted it to silently fail on IPv6.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure. Those who wanted silence don't get any silence and those
> > > who wanted a configurable hard failure get neither the
> > configurability nor
> > > any failure.
> >
> > That is the compromise. Neither gets what they want, but the final
> > solution is closer to each. This is probably the best we can do.
>
> BTW guys, there was strong demand at Linux.conf.au asking for the 'inet'
> type to support IPv6 addresses. I've been looking at it a bit, but I'll
> have to interleave it with my work on phpPgAdmin 3 (which rocks BTW :) ).

I had someone on the IPv6 IRC channel interested, but haven't seen any
patch yet. It isn't that hard to do.

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