Re: localhost redux - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gavin M. Roy
Subject Re: localhost redux
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Msg-id 40FC691C.1060803@ehpg.net
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In response to Re: localhost redux  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: localhost redux  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: localhost redux  (Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>)
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I have no problem resolving localhost anywhere else on the box, do you 
have any suggestions on finding out if it's a misconfiguration? 

Gavin

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net> writes:
>  
>
>>I've been having a problem with the pgstat.c localhost change since 7.4, 
>>in that statistics gathering stopped working on my gentoo boxes.  I've 
>>not traced it back beyond getaddrinfo called in getaddrinfo_all, and 
>>decided the quick fix was to go back and change pgstat to use 127.0.0.1 
>>instead of localhost.
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>>I don't know if the problem is isolated to just me, but I wanted to 
>>suggest that we use a parameter for that, which can be configured in the 
>>postgresql.conf, with a default value if it's not set, set to 
>>localhost.
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>I think you should first trace down what the problem really is --- is
>your system just misconfigured or is there some fundamental issue that
>we really ought to answer to?
>
>            regards, tom lane
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>



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