Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I grow weary of AIX's seemingly-unlimited supply of getaddrinfo
>> peculiarities. What about forgetting the whole matter and always
>> using our src/port/ implementation on that OS?
> I'm assuming that the OP has tested that 8.3 works on the same machine
> with listen_addresses = '*'.
> If so, then this seems a reasonable suggestion.
The only serious knock I can see on our implementation is that it lacks
IPv6 support. So we'd not want to use it on AIX versions that are
IPv6-capable. Which are those, if any, and do they have any of these
getaddrinfo issues?
regards, tom lane