Gavin Sherry wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:35:15PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote: > > > > > > > > Sure. But you still want to be able to say (and can say, in some [many?] > > > > socket API implementations) that you want to accept only IPv4 or only IPv6 > > > > connections. I also want to be able to say the same thing in my database. > > > > > > You just create either an ipv4 or ipv6 socket. And then you can > > > bind to an address of that type if you want. Either all > > > addresses or a specific one. > > > > > > Depending on the OS, binding to all addresses on IPv6 will also > > > bind to all the ipv4 addresses, which can be both handy an > > > annoying. On others you need 2 sockets if you want to listen on > > > both ipv4 and ipv6, which makes more sense. > > > > Well, that's interesting. Current CVS only binds to IPv6, and assumes > > IPv4 will work too. If some OS's require a separate Ipv4 binding, we > > are going to hear about it before 7.4: > > I don't think we should listen on IPv6 just because it is supported. It > should be a configuration variable: > > tcpip_socket = true > ipv6 = true
We had a huge discussion on this. I think you were away for it. You can control what you listen on by modifying pg_hba.conf. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]