Re: pgsql: Document the all-balls IPv6 address.

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>> On 03/18/2011 09:18 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> +<literal>0.0.0.0/0</literal>  (<quote>all balls</>) represents all
>>>> +       IPv4 addresses, and<literal>::</literal>  represents
>>>> +       all IPv6 addresses.
>>>>
>>>> Umm, isn't there a missing netmask there? The IPv6 analog of 0.0.0.0/0 is
>>>> surely ::/0 (or I would usually write it ::0/0).
>>>
>>> "all balls" seems like a colloquialism best avoided in our documentation.
>>>
>>
>> It's already there, although I agree it's infelicitous.
>
> I vote for taking it out.  I think that could be interpreted as inappropriate.

I agree.

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