Re: AIX and ipv6

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: AIX and ipv6
Date: 2012-09-11 19:55:08
Message-ID: CAHyXU0zew_2WnkARU4M3tLDbhWwv4zvT80Es+iOqWBfHxkQDug@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:09 AM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
> we're still having issues with PG on AIX 6.1, our configurations have no
> ipv6 as our WAN is purely ipv4, but if we use listen_addresses='*', we
> consistently get an error...
>
> LOG: could not bind IPv6 socket: Address already in use
>
>
> the workaround we've been using is to set listen_addresses to '127.0.0.1,
> x.y.z.w' where thats this server's IP. messy, and annoying.
>
> is their any chance this will ever be addressed?

have you got your aix completely up to date with all patches? I got
burned in a similar fashion a while back on a related call --
getaddrinfo IIRC.

merlin

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