Re: Upgrade problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

Tom:

Thanks for the reply. I've installed the patch and, as you predicted, it had no effect.

I did a google search on AIX + getaddrinfo and found

http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2002-April/002063.html

In that context the author says that adding the port number in etc/services solved his problem with getaddrinfo. So I tried that and, lo, it has some effect, though I'm not sure it's 100% desirable. The log entry is:

LOG:  could not bind IPv6 socket: The type of socket is not supported in this protocol family.
HINT:  Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.
LOG:  database system was shut down at 2006-11-26 23:26:32 EST
LOG:  checkpoint record is at 0/38D198
LOG:  redo record is at 0/38D198; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
LOG:  next transaction ID: 565; next OID: 10793
LOG:  next MultiXactId: 1; next MultiXactOffset: 0
LOG:  database system is ready
LOG:  transaction ID wrap limit is 2147484146, limited by database "postgres"

but postmaster is running.

I've restored my database and a cursory look seems to show everything is working as expected. Can you tell me what the log entries signify?

Thanks again.



Tom Lane wrote:

Bill Kurland <bill@panix.com> writes: 

I've just upgraded from 7.2 to 8.1.5 under AIX 4.3.
make check passes all 98 tests, but when I try to start postgresql I get:   

LOG:  could not translate service "5432" to address: Host not found   

Hmm, this seems to be another one of those "AIX's getaddrinfo() is
broken" problems :-(.  We patched around one problem last month:
http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/libpq/ip.c.diff?r1=1.32.2.1&r2=1.32.2.3

I'm afraid that that patch does not fix your problem, but it would be
worth trying it before we dig any deeper.
		regards, tom lane

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