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

Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:17:19 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
PGSTAT start failure probably shouldn't disable Postgres
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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Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:36:18 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: PGSTAT start failure probably shouldn't disable Postgres