From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, 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>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: IPv6 patch |
Date: | 2003-01-28 01:19:35 |
Message-ID: | 200301280119.h0S1JZa12808@candle.pha.pa.us |
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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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