"Durai " <visolve_postgres@lycos.co.uk> writes:
> I built PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on HPUX IPF platform. It works fine. But when I start the postmaster, I got
> the following LOG message:
> LOG: could not resolve "localhost": host nor service provided, or not known
The machine's name service is broken. You probably need to fix
/etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/hosts, and/or /etc/resolv.conf.
"man switch" has some info about the first of these.
regards, tom lane
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