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commit    a1bb5a480df44e518957abca0de2d04aaba5bf02
Author:   Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date:     Fri Mar 11 15:31:25 2011 +0000

    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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