Re: IPv6 in pg_hba.conf.sample fails here

Agreed. I wanted to put the ipv6 entry in there only if they compiled
with ipv6 suport, but that seemed strange to some, I think.

I would comment it out.

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Yeah, I'd be very surprised if many need it, and those who do can
> uncomment it. I think commenting it out is the right thing (tm).
>
> andrew
>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >Testing a connection that should fail (for lack of pg_hba entry):
> >
> >$ psql -h sss2 tgl
> >psql: FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file
> >HINT: See postmaster log for details.
> >$
> >
> >Say what? This is with a completely default pg_hba.conf file...
> >looking in the postmaster log as suggested:
> >
> >LOG: could not interpret IP address "::1" in config file: Unknown server error
> >LOG: invalid entry in pg_hba.conf file at line 55, token "::1"
> >FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file
> >HINT: See postmaster log for details.
> >
> >In short, it will not do to put IPv6 addresses into pg_hba.conf
> >by default on machines where IPv6 support is not present.
> >
> >While we could gin up some mechanism to adjust the installed copy of
> >pg_hba.conf.sample depending on whether we detected IPv6 support,
> >I am inclined to simply remove or comment out the IPv6-specific entry
> >in the sample file. I doubt that many people actually need it, and
> >the ones who do can just adjust the sample file.
> >
> >Comments?
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
> >
> >
>
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