Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> writes:
>> When pg_ctl tries to connect to postmaster, it uses "0.0.0.0" as the
>> target ip address. Unfortunately "0.0.0.0" is not a valid address on
>> Windows and it fails. Shouldn't pg_ctl translate "0.0.0.0" to
>> "127.0.0.1" in this case?
> I think this is definitely a bug. I privately heard from the reporter
> that if postmaster is started by not using pg_ctl, it happily starts
> with "listen_addresses = '0.0.0.0'. That means, postmaster itself
> works as advertised, but pg_ctl does not.
I looked at this before, and could not see anything in either the
postmaster or pg_ctl that would invent the address 0.0.0.0 out of
thin air. I think this report most likely depends on some
misconfiguration of the OP's system. I doubt it should be our business
to work around such misconfiguration. In particular, magically
substituting 127.0.0.1 for 0.0.0.0 seems utterly without principle.
regards, tom lane