We've seen several reports now of 7.2 postmasters failing to start because of weird networking setups --- if it's impossible to create a loopback UDP port on 127.0.0.1, 7.2 will exit with PGSTAT: bind(2): Cannot assign requested address
It occurs to me that a more friendly behavior would be to disable statistics gathering and proceed with startup anyway. Any objections? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly