Re: non-ipv6 vs hostnames

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 16:12, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> Accidentally specifying an IPv6 address in pg_hba.conf on a system
>> that doesn't have ipv6 support gives the following error:
>
>> LOG:  specifying both host name and CIDR mask is invalid: "::1/128"
>
>> Which is obviously wrong, because I didn't do that. Do we need to
>> detect and special-case ipv6 addresses in this case?
>
> Doesn't really seem worth going out of our way for that.  Systems with
> no IPv6 support are a dying breed, and will be more so by the time 9.2
> gets deployed.

Well, I got this on a win64 build. It's *supposed* to have ipv6. I
wonder if it breaks on windows just because there is no ipv6 address
on the machine...

Unfortunately I shut the machine down and won't have time to test more
right now, but I'll try to figure that out later unless beaten to
it...

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