Re: Upgrade problem

Bill Kurland <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:27:06 -0500

Tom:

Thanks for the reply. I've installed the patch and, as you predicted,
it had no effect. 

I did a google search on AIX + getaddrinfo and found

http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2002-April/002063.html
In that context the author says that adding the port number in
etc/services solved his problem with getaddrinfo. So I tried that and,
lo, it has some effect, though I'm not sure it's 100% desirable. The
log entry is:

LOG:  could not bind IPv6 socket: The type of socket is not supported
in this protocol family.

HINT:  Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait
a few seconds and retry.

LOG:  database system was shut down at 2006-11-26 23:26:32 EST

LOG:  checkpoint record is at 0/38D198

LOG:  redo record is at 0/38D198; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE

LOG:  next transaction ID: 565; next OID: 10793

LOG:  next MultiXactId: 1; next MultiXactOffset: 0

LOG:  database system is ready

LOG:  transaction ID wrap limit is 2147484146, limited by database
"postgres"

but postmaster is running. 

I've restored my database and a cursory look seems to show everything
is working as expected. Can you tell me what the log entries signify?

Thanks again.

Tom Lane wrote:

  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

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