Re: AIX 4.3 getaddrinfo busted

Andrew Chernow wrote:
> AIX 4.3 was released in late 1999, so I thought it was worth mentioning.
> I only have AIX 4.3 and 6.1, so I have no idea how AIX 5 handles this.
> AIX 6.1 works fine.
>
> Anyways, the service argument to getaddrinfo is busted on AIX 4.3, thus
> src/backend/libpq/ip.c pg_getaddrinfo_all() is busted on this
> platform. It fails with EAI_NODATA "Host not found". If this argument
> is left NULL, everything works.
>
> I can supply a patch to fix this. My suggestion would be to always
> supply a NULL service to getaddrinfo. After a successful call, set the
> port if it was provided ... htons((unsigned short)atoi(servname)). This
> approach avoids a configure check.

Why would we risk breaking other platforms to avoid an AIX bug? At best
we can put a code comment in that section of the code.

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