Carfield Yim <carfield(at)desktop(dot)carfield(dot)com(dot)hk> writes:
> Hi, after upgrade to Mandrake 9.0, I can't start my postgresql server. I
> find that when I run postmaster, I get the following message:
> postmaster successfully started
> PGSTAT: bind(2): Cannot assign requested address
Your networking configuration is messed up: it's disallowing loopback
connections to 127.0.0.1.
If you can't fix that, you can set stats_start_collector = false in
postgresql.conf to disable statistics collection, but this isn't a
very good solution...
regards, tom lane