On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 10:45:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I located the "current" versions of those files in libbind 6.0.
> (I put "current" in quotes because the file dates seem to be
> 2005-2008, so indeed development came to a stop a long time ago.)
>
> They are *very* different from what we have, though. Some of it
> is visibly cosmetic, but other parts have been rewritten quite a bit,
> so it's hard to tell if the functionality is identical.
>
> In the absence of a reason to think we have bugs that we need to
> fix, I'm not sure it's worth analyzing the differences in detail.
> I definitely wouldn't just adopt all the diffs blindly.
>
> In any case, that RELEASE_CHANGES item is clearly a dead letter
> now, so I'll go remove it.
OK, thanks for checking. I think there was some concern about IPv6
changes at the time we adopted this.
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