"Gavin M. Roy" <gmr(at)ehpg(dot)net> writes:
> I have no problem resolving localhost anywhere else on the box, do you
> have any suggestions on finding out if it's a misconfiguration?
In that case maybe we have a bug to fix; but that makes me even less
eager to "solve" it by substituting 127.0.0.1 ...
regards, tom lane