Re: Vista/IPv6

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:33:21PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:08:36AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 15:36 schrieb Dave Page:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> This means that the regression tests fail to run, leaving a
>>>>>> postmaster.log full of 'no pg_hba.conf entry for host ::1' errors.
>>>>>> Should we have initdb enable the ::1 pg_hba.conf trust entry by default
>>>>>> on Vista? Any better options?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> The default installation has that.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> ... as long as it's present and turned on on the build machine.
>>>>
>>> Let me pre-emt the discussion by saying that the msvc build does not detect
>>> ipv6 on the build machine (yet). Are you building with msvc or mingw on
>>> this machine?
>>>
>> msvc. Grrr.
>>
>> Eta to fix?
>>
>
> Eh. None, so far :-)
> Point being - if you build on a ipv6 enabled machine, will that binary then
> work at all on a non-ipv6 machine? Consider binaries distributed by the
> installer... Might as well think up the proper fix before we just band-aid
> it for the regression tests..
>
>

Yes, it should.

This was all tested back when we fixed Windows ipv6, around 8.1
timeframe. Look at the source of initdb and you'll see how it works.

cheers

andrew