The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 8171
Logged by: Trond Endrest=C3=B8l
Email address: Trond.Endrestol@ximalas.info
PostgreSQL version: 9.2.4
Operating system: FreeBSD/amd64 9.1-STABLE r250805
Description: =
The log message:
LOG: could not bind IPv6 socket: Can't assign requested address
should be augmented to reveal the attempted address, thus making the lives
of us poor db admins a lot easier. Likewise for any similar IPv4 related log
messages.
In fact all kinds of log/warning/error messages should be to the point and
include all(!) relevant details and not just a vague description of what
happened.
The above log message was due to the file /etc/hosts containing the two
lines:
localhost fe80::1
localhost fe80:2::1
Changing these two lines to:
localhost-6ll fe80::1
localhost-6ll fe80:2::1
made PostgreSQL much happier.
