Re: Occupied port warning

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:14:29PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > IIRC, in previous versions any bind failure was fatal, but in 8.0 we
> > decided to be slightly more forgiving and only bail out if we failed
> > to bind at all.
> 
> I realize that, but I would like to know where that bright idea came 
> from in violation of all other principles of this and any other 
> software.  I recall that it had something to do with IPv6, but I'm not 
> sure.

If the TCP socket is used we can still bind to the Unix-domain socket,
no?

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