Re: Occupied port warning

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> IIRC, in previous versions any bind failure was fatal, but in 8.0 we
> decided to be slightly more forgiving and only bail out if we failed
> to bind at all.

I realize that, but I would like to know where that bright idea came 
from in violation of all other principles of this and any other 
software.  I recall that it had something to do with IPv6, but I'm not 
sure.

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Peter Eisentraut
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