On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Dan White <dwh...@olp.net> wrote: > On 21/10/10 14:43 -0700, Leo Bicknell wrote: > >> In a message written on Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:53:49PM -0700, Christopher >> McCrory wrote: >> >>> open to the world. After a few google searches, it seems that >>> PostgreSQL is in a similar situation. >>> >> >> I don't know when PostgreSQL first supported IPv6, but it works just >> fine. I just fired up a stock FreeBSD 8.1 system and built the Postgres >> 8.4 port with no changes, and viola: >> > > All this is pretty moot point if you run a localized copy of your database > (mysql or postgres) and connect via unix domains sockets. > > True. It mostly affects shared/smaller hosting providers who have customers that want direct access to the database remotely over the public network (and don't want to use some local admin tool such as phpMyAdmin).
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