PGSTAT: bind(2): Can't assign requested address

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Hi,

in src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c there is a hard coded bind to
127.0.0.1 that fails if 127.0.0.1 is not configured on loopback
interface (e.g. administrator explicitly removed this IP).
This should _not_ be the case in normal setups.

--- gmake check ---
...
============== creating temporary installation ==============
============== initializing database system ==============
============== starting postmaster ==============

pg_regress: postmaster did not start
Examine ./log/postmaster.log for the reason.

kill: 97857: No such process
rm regress.o
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/u1/local/src/postgresql/postgresql-7.2.1/src/test/regress'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/u1/local/src/postgresql/postgresql-7.2.1/src/test'
% cat src/test/regress/log/postmaster.log
PGSTAT: bind(2): Can't assign requested address
--- snipp ---

With postgresql-7.2.1 (and perhaps also earlier versions ?) this
prevents postmaster from starting if one does not configure
'stats_start_collector = false'.
This works as a workaround.
One may also patch the sources and recompile of course.

I have seen that there were changes in CVS already but the 127.0.0.1 is
still hard coded in there.

I discovered that after playing with some routing daemons on my test
machine and therefor had removed 127.0.0.1. OS was FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
but that shouldn't matter.

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