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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, ac(at)esilo(dot)com
Subject: Re: Problem with listen_addresses = '*' on 8.4beta2 on AIX
Date: 2009-06-09 22:11:18
Message-ID: 29730.1244585478@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

Drat. Okay, that easy solution probably won't fly. Anyone with AIX
access want to try to develop a patch that covers this case without
breaking the other ones?

regards, tom lane

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