Re: duplicate connection failure messages

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-19T15:58:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.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