Brad Nicholson <bnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> That's bizarre. What error conditions does your man page for bind(2) >> document as yielding EACCES? The only one mentioned on my systems is >> "protected address", but we aren't requesting a reserved port number ... > "The requested address is protected, and the current user does not have > permission to access it." That's what the Linux man page says, too. Could getaddrinfo somehow be returning bogus data that includes a reserved port number? Would you try strace'ing postmaster start to see what gets passed to the socket() and bind() calls just before this message comes out? regards, tom lane
