On 05/03/2010 02:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Daniel J. Summers"<daniel.lists@djs-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> On 05/03/2010 01:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> Does it work if you change listen_addresses to '*' or '127.0.0.1' ?
>>>
>
>> Bingo - changing it to "*" got it started. :)
>>
> OK, what about 127.0.0.1? Given that "dig localhost" returns that,
> it *should* behave the same, but obviously something here is not
> behaving as expected. Also, after you start it with '*', does
> "psql -h localhost" work?
>
Yes on both accounts. When I had 127.0.0.1 or *, it both started up,
and psql -h localhost gave me a password prompt.
> I'm guessing that there is something funny about the way your local
> loopback is configured. It might be useful to look at "ifconfig lo".
> On a Fedora machine I get
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
>
Mine's a carbon copy of that. It's strange.
Let me know if there are any other commands you'd like for me to run.
The original problem is solved, but I'd be happy to help find the
disconnect (if there is one - and pardon the pun). :)
Daniel