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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> I don't see your point at all.  If they don't have IPv6 enabled in the
> kernel, they don't need it.  Or if they do, Postgres launch is surely
> not going to be the place where they discover they need it.

That's a good point.  Will they find they don't have IPv6 enabled in the
kernel before trying to make an IPv6 connection, perhaps from another
machine or from the local machine?

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