Richard Gass <rgass(at)sprintlabs(dot)com> writes:
> This was all working fine until I recently. It has been a long time since I
> have restarted the server ( 5:05pm up 377 days, 18:36, 7 users, load
> average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00) and it has been a long time since I restarted the
> postgres DB. I wonder if some weirdness is happening which isn't allowing
> postgres to bind to tcp port 5432.
This seems really really odd. Have you touched the machine's firewall
configuration (iptables or whatever) lately?
regards, tom lane