Re: could not create IPv6 socket (AI_ADDRCONFIG)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: could not create IPv6 socket (AI_ADDRCONFIG)
Date: 2014-02-04 13:30:34
Message-ID: 20140204133034.GM10723@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > Hello, I have often seen inquiries about an log message from
> > PostgreSQL server.
> >> LOG: could not create IPv6 socket: Address family not supported by protocol
>
> That's merely a harmless log message.

> If we're concerned about users worrying about log messages from
> this, I'd rather see us downgrade those log messages to DEBUG level
> than risk breaking the code with behaviors that were proven to be
> a bad idea a decade ago. But TBH I see no strong need to do anything
> here.

How about just adding a HINT?

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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