Tommi Mäkitalo <t.maekitalo@epgmbh.de> writes:
> It's a SuSE Linux 8.2-box with the original 2.4.20-kernel.
> I get the same error when setting PGHOST to localhost, the real hostname or
> the IP-adress of the box. It has nothing to do with the resolver I think.
Hm. I assume things will work after you uncomment the commented-out
IPv6 entries at the bottom of pg_hba.conf.
regards, tom lane