Re: Problem with listen_addresses = '*' on 8.4beta2 on AIX

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I grow weary of AIX's seemingly-unlimited supply of getaddrinfo
>>> peculiarities.  What about forgetting the whole matter and always
>>> using our src/port/ implementation on that OS?
>
>> I'm assuming that the OP has tested that 8.3 works on the same machine
>> with listen_addresses = '*'.
>> If so, then this seems a reasonable suggestion.
>
> The only serious knock I can see on our implementation is that it lacks
> IPv6 support.  So we'd not want to use it on AIX versions that are
> IPv6-capable.  Which are those, if any, and do they have any of these
> getaddrinfo issues?

actually, aix was the first commercial unix distribution to support
ipv6 afaik...as of 4.3 iirc.

merlin