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Re: could not create IPv6 socket when starting Postgres server


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: Jessica Richard <rjessil(at)yahoo(dot)com>
  • Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: could not create IPv6 socket when starting Postgres server
  • Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:34:58 -0400
  • Message-id: <8993.1188416098@sss.pgh.pa.us> <text/plain>

Jessica Richard <rjessil(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> If there anything that our system administrator can do to help me get
> rid of this IPv6 error?

Fix the system to not advertise an IPV6 translation for "localhost", if
it's not going to support IPV6.  /etc/hosts may be the problem.

			regards, tom lane



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