Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at> writes:
> On Freitag 08 Mai 2009 Jan Muhammad wrote:
>> postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>> LOG:� could not translate host name "localhost", service "5432" to
>> address: Name or service not known
> This smells a lot like SElinux.
No, it looks like his DNS setup is broken. Not being able to translate
"localhost" to "127.0.0.1" will break most networking services, not
only Postgres ...
regards, tom lane