Re: 7.4.3 & 8.0.0beta1 + Solaris 9: default pg_hba.conf breaks

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > I thought the report was that *only* 255.255.255.255 failed. The
> > question is why?
>
> The impression I got was that some internal subroutine of getaddrinfo
> had a broken error-handling convention (ie, "return a numeric address
> value or -1 on error").
>
> > And would changing the hints passed to getaddrinfo_all
> > improve matters (e.g. by filling in the ai_family with the value from
> > the addr structure we already have)?
>
> Seems unlikely. I suppose you could argue that we shouldn't be using
> getaddrinfo on the netmask field at all; there's certainly not any value
> in doing a DNS lookup on it, for instance. Maybe we should go back to
> using plain ol' inet_aton for it? (Nah, won't handle IPv6...)

Uh, we are passing 255.255.255.255 to getaddrinfo()? Why would we do that?

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