Re: Auto Vacuum not starting unless postgres is restarted

>> Hi,
>>
>> On startup we get an error in the postgres log that the Autovacuum process
has
>> failed to start -- "autovacuum not started because of misconfiguration".
>> However, if we do a restart (/etc/init/d/postgresql8.1 restart) then the
>> autovacuum starts fine.
>>
>> Does anybody have any idea what the problem might be?

> Do you have a message about failure to start the statistics collector as
> well (on the first try), which is missing on the reattempt?
>
>It may be that the startup firewall policy (at the time the PostgreSQL
>is first started) is restrictive, and is relaxed later on the boot
>process.

Yes, I do have the message about the failure to start the statistics
collector.

The firewall rules I have are :
# Postgres Statistics Collector
iptables -A INPUT -p udp \
-i lo --sport 32779 --dport 32779 \
-j ACCEPT

iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp \
-o lo --sport 32779 --dport 32779 \
-j ACCEPT
###

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp \
--sport 1024:65535 \
--dport 5432 \
-m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED \
-j ACCEPT

iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp \
--dport 1024:65535 \
--sport 5432 \
-m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED \
-j ACCEPT

but these should be the same both during boot and after the boot process has
finished

Nick
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