Re: [PATCHES] IPv6 patch doesn't work fine

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:02:01AM -0400, Kris Jurka wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Manuel Gil [iso-8859-1] Prez wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > I have a Java application that it connects to the PostgreSQL database with
> > > IPv6 patch installed.
> > >
> > What exactly do you have for the URL in the first argument to
> > getConnection? If you have a direct IPv6 address like
> > jdbc:postgresql://::1 it will not work at the moment because it tries to
> > parse the url using the colon as a delimiter which works fine for IPv4
> > addresses, but not IPv6 see org.postgresql.Driver#parseURL for more info.
> >
> > What happens if you are using a name that resolves to an IPv6 address?
> > You're probably the first person to actually try this. I will look into
> > this further, but it may take me a while to get IPv6 up and running on my
> > machine.
>
> Did you get it working yet?
>
>
> Kurt
>

The following patch allows you to connect using an IPv6 address by
enclosing it in square brackets.

jdbc:postgresql://[::1]:5432/dbname

Additionally some minor cleanup to JDBC docs, adding <acronym> tags,
mentioning JDBC 3 support, and cross referencing the installation
instructions.

Kris Jurka