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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [HACKERS] PGSTAT start failure probably shouldn't disable Postgres
From:       Bruce Momjian <pgman () candle ! pha ! pa ! us>
Date:       2002-03-30 20:36:18
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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.

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