Re: duplicate connection failure messages

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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: 2010-11-20T20:43:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

I assume you are suggesting to use our inet_net_ntop() even if the
system has inet_ntop().

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