Graham Clarke <grahamc(at)53tech(dot)com> writes:
> Hi - I'm trying to get postgres 7.4.2 going on RedHat ES
> The build went fine but I get the following when trying to start postgres
> with this command:
> LOG: disabling statistics collector for lack of working socket
It tries to bind a UDP port to the hostname "localhost". I'm guessing
there is something messed up in your /etc/hosts or DNS configuration,
such that that name doesn't resolve to 127.0.0.1 like it should.
regards, tom lane