Re: IPv6 patch

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:20:31 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> We already do.  The issue is what way should we give admins to _fail_ if
> >> IPv6 doesn't start.
> >
> > What is "IPv6 doesn't start"?  Either the machine has IPv6 addresses,
> > or it doesn't.  It is not our job to notify the DBA what the addresses
> > on his machine are.
> In the UnixWare case, you can't even find out if there is an IPv6 address, 
> and
> the API returns a wierd error, IIRC.

I don't think we care about how IPv6 fails in our code --- we just fall
back to IPv4.

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