On 10/21/10 2:59 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote: > 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).
linux/unix machines can trivially build ip-tunnels of several flavors. > -brandon >