On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:09 AM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
> we're still having issues with PG on AIX 6.1, our configurations have no
> ipv6 as our WAN is purely ipv4, but if we use listen_addresses='*', we
> consistently get an error...
>
> LOG: could not bind IPv6 socket: Address already in use
>
>
> the workaround we've been using is to set listen_addresses to '127.0.0.1,
> x.y.z.w' where thats this server's IP. messy, and annoying.
>
> is their any chance this will ever be addressed?
have you got your aix completely up to date with all patches? I got
burned in a similar fashion a while back on a related call --
getaddrinfo IIRC.
merlin
