Thread: PGSTAT start failure probably shouldn't disable Postgres

We've seen several reports now of 7.2 postmasters failing to start
because of weird networking setups --- if it's impossible to create
a loopback UDP port on 127.0.0.1, 7.2 will exit withPGSTAT: bind(2): Cannot assign requested address

It occurs to me that a more friendly behavior would be to disable
statistics gathering and proceed with startup anyway.  Any objections?
        regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:
> We've seen several reports now of 7.2 postmasters failing to start
> because of weird networking setups --- if it's impossible to create
> a loopback UDP port on 127.0.0.1, 7.2 will exit with
>     PGSTAT: bind(2): Cannot assign requested address
> 
> It occurs to me that a more friendly behavior would be to disable
> statistics gathering and proceed with startup anyway.  Any objections?

Agreed.  Throw an elog(LOG) and continue.

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