Thread: PostgreSQL on Vista

<br /><font size="2"><font face="Arial">Hi,<br /><br /> I have been running a Postgres (8.2.4) on a Windows XP for over
3months. Last week this machine died and I bought a new Vista machine today. Installed everything on it and a Postgres
(8.2.7).The problem is that I cannot start the Postgres service. I keep getting the following error: FATAL:  could not
createany TCP/IP sockets<br /><br /><br /> Anyone has any idea what I can do ?<br /><br /> Thanks,<br /><br /> Dirk<br
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Dirk Verleysen wrote:

Hi,

I have been running a Postgres (8.2.4) on a Windows XP for over 3 months. Last week this machine died and I bought a new Vista machine today. Installed everything on it and a Postgres (8.2.7). The problem is that I cannot start the Postgres service. I keep getting the following error: FATAL:  could not create any TCP/IP sockets


Anyone has any idea what I can do ?

Thanks,

Dirk

turn of the firewall

this new keyboard has problems, or i can't type ;-) .

 it should be off not of

Justin wrote:

Dirk Verleysen wrote:

Hi,

I have been running a Postgres (8.2.4) on a Windows XP for over 3 months. Last week this machine died and I bought a new Vista machine today. Installed everything on it and a Postgres (8.2.7). The problem is that I cannot start the Postgres service. I keep getting the following error: FATAL:  could not create any TCP/IP sockets


Anyone has any idea what I can do ?

Thanks,

Dirk

turn of the firewall

I would recommend creating rules in your firewall that let Postgres run and listen on sockets rather than turn off the firewall altogether. (The firewall rules _may_ not be the problem in your case, but you can still try)

On an orthogonal note, I just disliked the UAC in Vista... For the first month or so I tried to cope with it, hoping that I'd get used to it, but it keeps coming in the way so much that I had to finally turn it off... now life's much easier.

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Gurjeet Singh wrote:

I would recommend creating rules in your firewall that let Postgres run and listen on sockets rather than turn off the firewall altogether. (The firewall rules _may_ not be the problem in your case, but you can still try)

On an orthogonal note, I just disliked the UAC in Vista... For the first month or so I tried to cope with it, hoping that I'd get used to it, but it keeps coming in the way so much that I had to finally turn it off... now life's much easier.

Best regards,

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Justin <justin@emproshunts.com> wrote:

this new keyboard has problems, or i can't type ;-) .

 it should be off not of

Justin wrote:

Dirk Verleysen wrote:

Hi,

I have been running a Postgres (8.2.4) on a Windows XP for over 3 months. Last week this machine died and I bought a new Vista machine today. Installed everything on it and a Postgres (8.2.7). The problem is that I cannot start the Postgres service. I keep getting the following error: FATAL:  could not create any TCP/IP sockets


Anyone has any idea what I can do ?

Thanks,

Dirk

turn of the firewall

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Good point

here' an article on how to configure vista's firewall. 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb877967.aspx

Vista's firewall has been greatly improved its still  a pain to configure and gets in the way more than it helps.