Bill Kurland <bill@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've just upgraded from 7.2 to 8.1.5 under AIX 4.3. > make check passes all 98 tests, but when I try to start postgresql I get: > LOG: could not translate service "5432" to address: Host not found Hmm, this seems to be another one of those "AIX's getaddrinfo() is broken" problems :-(. We patched around one problem last month: http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/libpq/ip.c.diff?r1=1.32.2.1&r2=1.32.2.3 I'm afraid that that patch does not fix your problem, but it would be worth trying it before we dig any deeper. regards, tom lane