Brad Nicholson <bnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Would you try strace'ing postmaster start to see what gets passed to the >> socket() and bind() calls just before this message comes out? > Here is the relative output from truss. > socket(2, 2, 0) = 7 > bind(7, 0x00000001100E3BF0, 16) Err#13 EACCES Well, that's pretty odd --- I'd have expected to see something involving 127.0.0.1 (ie, 7F000001 in one byte order or another). Does your /etc/hosts file map "localhost" to something other than 127.0.0.1? Also, do regular connections to this postmaster work across TCP/IP? If getaddrinfo() is broken I'd expect there to be problems binding to the postmaster's listen socket too ... regards, tom lane
