Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>>> Can we allow the IPv6 entries to be in pg_hba.conf but ignore them on
>>> non-IPv6 machines, or allow the connection to fail?

> What is the problem?  Is it that a non-IPv6 enabled postmaster is unable
> to identify or parse valid IPv6 address specifications?  In that case,
> we need to provide some substitute routines.

To what purpose?  I think I prefer Andrew Dunstan's approach of allowing
IPv4 syntax in pg_hba.conf to match appropriate IPv6 connections.
        regards, tom lane