Tom Lane wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So the for loop over the addresses that are returned should go
> > over both socket() and bind() instead of only socket().  And
> > probably connect() too.
> > The code now assumes if you create a socket of a certain type you
> > can actually use it.
> 
> Ah, light dawns... the postmaster socket code does this correctly,
> but pgstat.c doesn't.
> 
> Too bad we didn't figure this out yesterday.  We are now in code freeze
> for 7.4 release, and I'm hesitant to apply a fix for what is arguably a
> broken platform.  Core guys, time for a vote ... do we fix, or hold this
> for 7.4.1?

Must fix, I believe, especially if it is the same function call sequence
used by the postmaster so we have a high probability it will work on all
platforms.

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