On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Naomi Walker <nwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > When starting up a second instance of postgres on a server, received: > > > > LOG: could not bind socket for statistics collector: Cannot assign requested address > > LOG: trying another address for the statistics collector Sounds like they're both trying to start up on the same port. Change the port number in the second postgres' postgresql.conf (or change the startup args...) and see if that helps.