Re: duplicate connection failure messages

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: duplicate connection failure messages
Date: 2010-11-19 15:58:03
Message-ID: 318.1290182283@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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

regards, tom lane

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