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
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