Re: 7.4Beta1 "failed to create socket: Address family not

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> The real problem is perhaps that the message gives no hint that it's
> >> talking about being unable to establish an IPv6 socket.  With that hint,
> >> perhaps people would realize that it's not a problem.
>
> > Not sure who took it out, but it gone.  The original message was:
> >   elog(LOG, "IPv6 support disabled --- perhaps the kernel does not support IPv6");
>
> That seems both wordy and not necessarily accurate.  What I had in mind
> was more like
>
>     "could not create IPv6 socket: %m"
>
> But I still wonder whether we shouldn't suppress the message entirely,
> at least for EAFNOSUPPORT errors.

If we suppress it entirely, there is no user-visible report that IPv6
isn't enabled on this computer, though if your kernel doesn't support
it, you would think they would know that, but I suspect many people
don't know it has to be enabled in the kernel --- hence the wording of
the original message.

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