Re: duplicate connection failure messages
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-19T22:56:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes: > I was wondering that. I am unclear if we need it though --- can we not > assume inet_ntop() exists on all systems? We assumed inet_ntoa() did. The Single Unix Spec includes inet_ntoa but not inet_ntop. > Of course, the buildfarm will tell us. The buildfarm unfortunately contains only a subset of the platforms we care about. I don't think this problem is large enough to justify taking a portability risk by depending on non-SUS library functions. If you want to do this, please do it as suggested previously, ie depend on the copy of the code we have internally. regards, tom lane