Re: Someone's broken psql's connection-failure error reporting

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Speculation time: do you have the IPv6 code compiled in? I don't.
>
> > I have IPv6 enabled in the binary, but not the kernel.
>
> Sure enough, the IPV6 patch had broken error handling in the non-IPV6
> path.
>
> I've done a little bit of cleanup, but that code is still a mess...
> someone should rewrite these routines.

Yes, I looked at it and struggled to get both IPv4 and IPv6 cleanly
working. Any ideas on how to improve it?

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