Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL 8.0.3 and Ipv6

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>If you like, you can improve initdb to comment that line out if
>>>getaddrinfo chokes on "::1", rather than believing HAVE_IPV6.
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>>Good idea. Here's a patch for that. Rather than commenting it out I used
>>the slightly newer initdb facility to remove it and the associated
>>comment line altogether.
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>Hm, is that really better than just commenting it out? Particularly
>on Windows, where we could imagine someone installing a newer version
>of the relevant DLL and then wanting to use IPv6. Seems to me that
>leaving the line present but commented out is the right thing, because
>it documents how things should look for IPv6.
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Seemed to me slightly less potentially confusing, but I don't feel
strongly. Try this instead if you prefer.

cheers

andrew