Re: duplicate connection failure messages

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie nov 19 00:17:59 -0300 2010:
> >> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >>> I think we should use inet_ntop where available to print the address.
> >>
> >> Good idea because inet_ntop() is thread-safe. Does that work on IPv6?
> >> You indicated that inet_ntoa() does not.
>
> > According to opengroup.org, IPv6 should work if the underlying libraries
> > support it, whereas inet_ntoa explicitely does not.
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/inet_ntop.html
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/inet_addr.html
>
> I get the impression that you guys have forgotten the existence of
> src/backend/utils/adt/inet_net_ntop.c

Yeah, that is nice, but we are calling this from libpq, not the backend.
Let me work up a patch.

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