From: Bruce Momjian Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:31:25 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Document how listen_addresses can do only IPv4 or IPv6. X-Git-Tag: REL9_1_ALPHA5~101 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a1bb5a480df44e518957abca0de2d04aaba5bf02;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git Document how listen_addresses can do only IPv4 or IPv6. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml index 8e27f730a41..0c682c833b2 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml @@ -324,7 +324,9 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF; to listen for connections from client applications. The value takes the form of a comma-separated list of host names and/or numeric IP addresses. The special entry * - corresponds to all available IP interfaces. + corresponds to all available IP interfaces. The entry + 0.0.0.0 allows listening for all IPv4 addresses and + :: allows listening for all IPv6 addresses. If the list is empty, the server does not listen on any IP interface at all, in which case only Unix-domain sockets can be used to connect to it.