Re: AIX 4.3 getaddrinfo busted

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com> wrote:
> AIX 4.3 was released in late 1999, so I thought it was worth mentioning. I
> only have AIX 4.3 and 6.1, so I have no idea how AIX 5 handles this. AIX
> 6.1 works fine.
>
> Anyways, the service argument to getaddrinfo is busted on AIX 4.3, thus
> src/backend/libpq/ip.c pg_getaddrinfo_all() is busted on this platform. It
> fails with EAI_NODATA "Host not found". If this argument is left NULL,
> everything works.
>
> I can supply a patch to fix this. My suggestion would be to always supply a
> NULL service to getaddrinfo. After a successful call, set the port if it
> was provided ... htons((unsigned short)atoi(servname)). This approach
> avoids a configure check.

FYI: There are AIX 5.3 nodes on BuildFarm - if the change is a
regression, it will be noticed :-).

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