Re: Stats Collector Won't Start

tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane) writes:
> Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:
>> Is there a more elegant way of setting the requested port to 0 than my
>> 2-liner?
>
> What I'm tempted to do is add this to pg_getaddrinfo_all (in
> src/backend/libpq/ip.c):
>
>   {
>       /* not all versions of getaddrinfo() zero *result on failure */
>       *result = NULL;
>
> + #ifdef _AIX
> +    /* it seems AIX's getaddrinfo doesn't reliably zero sin_port */
> +    if (servname == NULL)
> +        servname = "0";
> + #endif
> +
>   #ifdef HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS
>       if (hintp->ai_family == AF_UNIX)
>           return getaddrinfo_unix(servname, hintp, result);
>
> Want to try that?

That seems to work fine, too.  And that seems somewhat more
portable/elegant/something.
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