Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?

Tom Lane 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?
>
> I don't see a good way yet. The fly in the ointment is that HAVE_IPV6
> is set by configure based on the capabilities of userland libraries;
> we cannot assume that HAVE_IPV6 means the kernel knows IPv6. But if
> we simply suppress failure messages on IPv6 addresses, we are going to
> create severe headaches for people who are actually using IPv6.

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.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net