From a1bb5a480df44e518957abca0de2d04aaba5bf02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:31:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Document how listen_addresses can do only IPv4 or IPv6.
---
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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 <literal>*</>
- corresponds to all available IP interfaces.
+ corresponds to all available IP interfaces. The entry
+ <literal>0.0.0.0</> allows listening for all IPv4 addresses and
+ <literal>::</> 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.
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