I just had this problem last night.... my local firewall was blocking
connections on the loopback interface.
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Brad Nicholson wrote:
> Can someone please provide a bit of information where the following
> error is coming from? This is PG 8.1.3 on AIX 5.3
>
> LOG: could not bind socket for statistics collector: Permission denied
> LOG: disabling statistics collector for lack of working socket
>
> What exactly does the PG user not have appropriate permissions to?
>
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