Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Tommi Mäkitalo <t(dot)maekitalo(at)epgmbh(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?
Date: 2003-09-04 17:25:36
Message-ID: 7985.1062696336@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>>> Can we allow the IPv6 entries to be in pg_hba.conf but ignore them on
>>> non-IPv6 machines, or allow the connection to fail?

> What is the problem? Is it that a non-IPv6 enabled postmaster is unable
> to identify or parse valid IPv6 address specifications? In that case,
> we need to provide some substitute routines.

To what purpose? I think I prefer Andrew Dunstan's approach of allowing
IPv4 syntax in pg_hba.conf to match appropriate IPv6 connections.

regards, tom lane

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