Re: Is there a parameter to tell postgresql to not attempt to open an IPv6 socket?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 04:46:37PM -0400, Reid.Thompson wrote:

> PostgreSQL appears to all intents to startup fine on the UNIX and IPv4
> sockets.  Is there a parameter to tell postgresql to not attempt to open
> an IPv6 socket?

Specify the specific TCP/IP interfaces in the postmaster.conf file.
Otherwise, Postgres will try to bind to all the sockets.  There's
something hinkey about the IPv6 support in AIX, IIRC, so that you end
up with this symptom.

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