FW: Error in logfile on DB startup

Any help would be much appreciated especially with the first problem

Thanks,
Nigel

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Nigel Bishop
Sent: 20 July 2004 14:50
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: [ADMIN] Error in logfile on DB startup

Hi

Solaris 8, PG 7.4.2 installed from source

The DB appears to be running OK

I set the following in the pg_conf file to invoke statistics gathering:

stats_start_collector = true
stats_block_level = true

In the logfile after the DB was re-started the following appeared:

2004-07-19 16:25:12 LOG:  could not bind socket for statistics
collector: Cannot assign requested address

I found 1 hit with someone who had a similar problem but I was unsure to
the fix

I believe that the solution lies with this file /etc/inet/ipnodes, the
contents of which are:

#
# Internet host table
#
::1             localhost
127.0.0.1       localhost

Am I right in assuming that the line beginning ::1 needs to be commented
out? And PG restarted
~
If this does fix the problem does that then mean that the following view
will be populated - pg_statio_all_tables - at the moment it's empty


*****

One other question how do I format the output from a SQL query - in
Oracle I can use the COLUMN command:

COLUMN col1 FORMAT A10
COLUMN col2 FORMAT 999,999
SELECT col1,col2 FROM table1;


Thanks very much for any help provided.

Nigel

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