Re: AIX FAQ - IPv6 Fun

Applied.

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Chris Browne wrote:
> cbbrowne@dba2:/opt/OXRS/sources/pgsql-HEAD/doc$ cvs diff -u FAQ_AIX
> Index: FAQ_AIX
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> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/FAQ_AIX,v
> retrieving revision 1.17
> diff -c -u -r1.17 FAQ_AIX
> cvs diff: conflicting specifications of output style
> --- FAQ_AIX    13 Apr 2006 11:41:02 -0000    1.17
> +++ FAQ_AIX    25 May 2006 21:06:21 -0000
> @@ -365,3 +365,35 @@
>    IBM Redbook
>    http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245674.pdf
>    http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245674.html?Open
> +
> +
> +Statistics Collector Fun on AIX
> +--------------------------------
> +
> +When implementing PostgreSQL version 8.1 on AIX 5.3, we periodically
> +ran into problems where the statistics collector would "mysteriously"
> +not come up successfully.
> +
> +This appears to be the result of unexpected behaviour in the IPv6
> +implementation.  It looks like PostgreSQL and IPv6 do not play very
> +well together at this time on AIX.
> +
> +Any of the following actions "fix" the problem.
> +
> +1.  Delete the localhost ipv6 address
> +
> +(as root)
> +# ifconfig lo0 inet6 ::1/0 delete
> +
> +2.  Remove IPv6 from net services.  The file /etc/netsvc.conf, on AIX,
> +is roughly equivalent to /etc/nsswitch.conf on Solaris/Linux.
> +
> +The default, on AIX, is thus:
> +
> +  hosts=local,bind
> +
> +Replace this with:
> +
> +  hosts=local4,bind4
> +
> +to deactivate searching for IPv6 addresses.
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