"Suresh Gupta VG" <suresh.g@zensar.com> writes:
> server starting
> bash-2.05$ LOG: could not bind socket for statistics collector: Cannot
> assign requested address
> LOG: trying another address for the statistics collector
> LOG: database system was shut down at 2008-01-18 16:06:04 AST
AFAICT you do not have a problem here. The database started up fine.
If you don't like the chatter in the log, fix your name resolution setup
(/etc/hosts or DNS) so that it doesn't return a non-working translation
of "localhost". It looks to me like it probably returns both IPv6 and
IPv4 translations when the kernel will only take one of them.
regards, tom lane