Tom Lane wrote: > 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?
Agreed. Throw an elog(LOG) and continue. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(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
