Re: Odd listen_addresses behavior

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> jd(at)jd-wks:~/snap/postgresql96/common$ grep listen_addresses
> data/postgresql.conf
> listen_addresses = '192*' # what IP address(es) to listen on;

> -- I wasn't actually expecting the above to work. I was just testing.

Fails as expected for me:

$ postgres --listen-addresses='192*'
2017-03-15 15:50:11.024 EDT [3852] LOG: could not translate host name "192*", service "5432" to address: Name or service not known
2017-03-15 15:50:11.024 EDT [3852] WARNING: could not create listen socket for "192*"
2017-03-15 15:50:11.024 EDT [3852] FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets
2017-03-15 15:50:11.024 EDT [3852] LOG: database system is shut down

> postgres=# show listen_addresses ;
> listen_addresses
> ------------------
> *
> (1 row)

I'm suspicious that you have an override of listen_addresses somewhere ---
for instance, the "-i" postmaster command line switch effectively is
--listen-addresses='*'. Even if you had a version of getnameinfo() that
failed to complain about '192*', that would not cause the recorded value
of the string GUC to silently transmogrify into something else. You might
look into pg_settings to see where it says that value of listen_addresses
came from.

regards, tom lane