On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:55:23PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> I've done a little bit of cleanup, but that code is still a mess... > >> someone should rewrite these routines. > > > Yes, I looked at it and struggled to get both IPv4 and IPv6 cleanly > > working. Any ideas on how to improve it? > > The major problem is the huge amount of #ifdefs, most of which seem to > come from the fact that we deal with a list of possible addresses in > one case and not the other. It would help a lot if we fixed things so > that we dealt with a list in either case --- only a one-element list, > if we don't have getaddrinfo, but getaddrinfo2 could hide that and > provide a uniform API regardless.
I'm actually working on getting rid of all those #ifdef's, but it's going slowly. (I have very little free time.) Kurt ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
