Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie nov 19 00:17:59 -0300 2010:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> 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
I get the impression that you guys have forgotten the existence of
src/backend/utils/adt/inet_net_ntop.c
regards, tom lane