Andreas <maps(dot)on(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> When I checked the logfile of the local PG-9.3 server I found an error
> on startup that complained it couldn't bind a IPv4 socket for 5432.
> Another error says autovauum is not running.
It would help if you provided the exact log messages, but what this sounds
like is a networking configuration problem. Do you have DNS service on
this machine, and if so does it correctly resolve "localhost"?
There has been some talk in the past about kluging things so that PG would
work even if "localhost" didn't resolve, but the case hasn't seemed worth
putting much effort into.
regards, tom lane