alternative solution for ipv6 loopback

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: alternative solution for ipv6 loopback
Date: 2003-09-04 20:24:40
Message-ID: 3F579F88.1060202@dunslane.net
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I just thought of something:

For a *real* special case, with no new keywords or other stuff, we could
just add something like this to hba.c at the start of the 'host*'
section of parse_hba():

#ifndef HAVE_IPV6
if (strcmp(token,"::1") == 0 || strcmp(token,"::1/128") == 0)
return;
#endif

A bit fragile, but it would allow a default line for the ip6 loopback
address that wouldn't break ip4 only postmasters.

Any other type of ip6 address would break, as I believe it should. And
we wouldn't have to write special routines to handle ip6 addresses where
we otherwise don't know about them.

cheers

andrew

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