Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie nov 19 00:17:59 -0300 2010: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mi nov 17 13:04:46 -0300 2010: > > > > > OK, I doubt we want to add complexity to improve this, so I see our > > > options as: > > > > > > o ignore the problem > > > o display IPv4/IPv6 labels > > > o display only an IPv6 label > > > o something else > > > > 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 -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
