John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> writes:
> 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
This was discussed at bug #6494
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2012-02/msg00190.php
It appears to me to be an AIX bug, so you really ought to be pestering
IBM not us. Any workaround we might implement could introduce worse
problems.
regards, tom lane