Andrew Chernow wrote: > AIX 4.3 was released in late 1999, so I thought it was worth mentioning. > I only have AIX 4.3 and 6.1, so I have no idea how AIX 5 handles this. > AIX 6.1 works fine. > > Anyways, the service argument to getaddrinfo is busted on AIX 4.3, thus > src/backend/libpq/ip.c pg_getaddrinfo_all() is busted on this > platform. It fails with EAI_NODATA "Host not found". If this argument > is left NULL, everything works. > > I can supply a patch to fix this. My suggestion would be to always > supply a NULL service to getaddrinfo. After a successful call, set the > port if it was provided ... htons((unsigned short)atoi(servname)). This > approach avoids a configure check.
Why would we risk breaking other platforms to avoid an AIX bug? At best we can put a code comment in that section of the code. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
