Re: localhost redux

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Gavin M(dot) Roy" <gmr(at)ehpg(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: localhost redux
Date: 2004-07-20 00:31:18
Message-ID: 1780.1090283478@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Gavin M. Roy" <gmr(at)ehpg(dot)net> writes:
> I've been having a problem with the pgstat.c localhost change since 7.4,
> in that statistics gathering stopped working on my gentoo boxes. I've
> not traced it back beyond getaddrinfo called in getaddrinfo_all, and
> decided the quick fix was to go back and change pgstat to use 127.0.0.1
> instead of localhost.

> I don't know if the problem is isolated to just me, but I wanted to
> suggest that we use a parameter for that, which can be configured in the
> postgresql.conf, with a default value if it's not set, set to
> localhost.

I think you should first trace down what the problem really is --- is
your system just misconfigured or is there some fundamental issue that
we really ought to answer to?

regards, tom lane

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