Hi, > On December 3, 2014 at 5:04 PM Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > which suggests that getaddrinfo() preferentially looks in /etc/hosts > before contacting any DNS server. So perhaps that "dig" call is not > telling you the real state of affairs, and what you need to do is > see if there's a bogus entry for localhost in /etc/hosts. Thanks a lot, your last hint did the trick! The /etc/hosts file looked like this on the DB server: ::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback 192.168.185.41 ixion41.molbi ixion41 192.168.185.41 ixion41.molbi ixion41 I changed it to this: 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback 192.168.185.41 ixion41.molbi ixion41 192.168.185.41 ixion41.molbi ixion41 Then I restarted the db server. Now I find this in the logs: 2014-12-03 17:17:53 CET LOG: database system was shut down at 2014-12-03 17:17:51 CET 2014-12-03 17:17:53 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2014-12-03 17:17:53 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started So it seems to work now. Thanks a lot for your time & efforts, Tom Lane! -- Tim -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
