Re: IPv6 in pg_hba.conf.sample fails here

Yeah, I'd be very surprised if many need it, and those who do can 
uncomment it. I think commenting it out is the right thing (tm).

andrew


Tom Lane wrote:

>Testing a connection that should fail (for lack of pg_hba entry):
>
>$ psql -h sss2 tgl
>psql: FATAL:  missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file
>HINT:  See postmaster log for details.
>$
>
>Say what?  This is with a completely default pg_hba.conf file...
>looking in the postmaster log as suggested:
>
>LOG:  could not interpret IP address "::1" in config file: Unknown server error
>LOG:  invalid entry in pg_hba.conf file at line 55, token "::1"
>FATAL:  missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file
>HINT:  See postmaster log for details.
>
>In short, it will not do to put IPv6 addresses into pg_hba.conf
>by default on machines where IPv6 support is not present.
>
>While we could gin up some mechanism to adjust the installed copy of
>pg_hba.conf.sample depending on whether we detected IPv6 support,
>I am inclined to simply remove or comment out the IPv6-specific entry
>in the sample file.  I doubt that many people actually need it, and
>the ones who do can just adjust the sample file.
>
>Comments?
>
>            regards, tom lane
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