| From: | Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: AIX 4.3 getaddrinfo busted |
| Date: | 2009-01-23 19:17:45 |
| Message-ID: | 497A17D9.8090504@esilo.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> BTW, what about the comments in ip.c to the effect that some versions of
>>> AIX fail when getaddrinfo's second argument *is* null?
>
>> For starters, it indicates that sin_port is not zero'd properly. That
>> wouldn't matter here since the plan is to manually set the port in this
>> case, since providing it to getaddrinfo is broken.
>
> Hmm ... so actually we could get *rid* of that special case if we added
> this one. Okay, I withdraw the complaint. We should simply not rely on
> getaddrinfo to do anything right at all w.r.t. the port if we are
> running on AIX. Pass NULL for servname and set the port ourselves in
> all cases.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
Done.
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Andrew Chernow
eSilo, LLC
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