Re: Stats Collector Won't Start

tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) writes:
> Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> writes:
>> Is there a more elegant way of setting the requested port to 0 than my
>> 2-liner?
>
> What I'm tempted to do is add this to pg_getaddrinfo_all (in
> src/backend/libpq/ip.c):
>
> {
> /* not all versions of getaddrinfo() zero *result on failure */
> *result = NULL;
>
> + #ifdef _AIX
> + /* it seems AIX's getaddrinfo doesn't reliably zero sin_port */
> + if (servname == NULL)
> + servname = "0";
> + #endif
> +
> #ifdef HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS
> if (hintp->ai_family == AF_UNIX)
> return getaddrinfo_unix(servname, hintp, result);
>
> Want to try that?

That seems to work fine, too. And that seems somewhat more
portable/elegant/something.
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