Re: Vista/IPv6

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Vista/IPv6
Date: 2007-04-11 14:57:36
Message-ID: 200704111657.36946.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 16:46 schrieb Magnus Hagander:
> Point being - if you build on a ipv6 enabled machine, will that binary then
> work at all on a non-ipv6 machine? Consider binaries distributed by the
> installer... Might as well think up the proper fix before we just band-aid
> it for the regression tests..

The check is done by initdb (not on the build machine) and it checks if
getaddrinfo("::1", ...) works. If that doesn't work then you don't have IPv6
for all practical purposes. So everything seems to be set up all right.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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