Re: Occupied port warning

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>

It came from the fertile brain of Tom Lane :-)

see http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-03/msg00679.php

I think "violation of all other principles of this and any other 
software" is far too strong.

cheers

andrew