Re: problem with pg_stat_activity view

>> ERROR: invalid input syntax for type inet:
>> "fe80::104d:416e:a8dc:c02e%12"
>>
>> SQL state: 22P02

Interesting.

When we HAVE_IPV6, there's code to remove stuff after a % in an address.
My bet is that what you're running was not compiled with HAVE_IPV6 and
so the code is not executed. Obviously this is invoked in
pg_stat_get_backend_client_addr().

/*
* clean_ipv6_addr --- remove any '%zone' part from an IPv6 address string
*
* XXX This should go away someday!
*
* This is a kluge needed because we don't yet support zones in stored inet
* values. Since the result of getnameinfo() might include a zone spec,
* call this to remove it anywhere we want to feed getnameinfo's output to
* network_in. Beats failing entirely.
*
* An alternative approach would be to let network_in ignore %-parts for
* itself, but that would mean we'd silently drop zone specs in user input,
* which seems not such a good idea.
*/
void
clean_ipv6_addr(int addr_family, char *addr)
{
#ifdef HAVE_IPV6
if (addr_family == AF_INET6)
{
char *pct = strchr(addr, '%');

if (pct)
*pct = '\0';
}
#endif
}

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