Обсуждение: could not create IPv6 socket !

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Hi,

i also get this error message but only at one of my database servers.
I'm not sure, but I have experienced some other IPv6 issues on the same
server. I think somebody turned on the IPv6 protocole on the server and
didn't declare in postgres the IPv6 address. Check if this is also true
in your case.

Regards,

Aldor

Bui Phu Ngot wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am a newbie to postgresql. After installing Postgresql 8.0.3, I run
> postmaster and get an error (log). Please help me ! Thanks in advance.
>
> Bui Phu Ngot
>
>
>
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> LOG: could not create IPv6 socket: Address family not supported by protocol
>
> LOG: database system was shut down at 2005-09-24 17:10:30 ICT
>
> LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/A32B5C
>
> LOG: redo record is at 0/A32B5C; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
>
> LOG: next transaction ID: 544; next OID: 17230
>
> LOG: database system is ready
>
>
>
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Aldor <an@mediaroot.de> writes:
>> LOG: could not create IPv6 socket: Address family not supported by protocol

> i also get this error message but only at one of my database servers.
> I'm not sure, but I have experienced some other IPv6 issues on the same
> server. I think somebody turned on the IPv6 protocole on the server and
> didn't declare in postgres the IPv6 address.

Actually, what this suggests is that your kernel doesn't support IPv6
but userland libraries (getaddrinfo() in particular) think it does.
It's pretty harmless and you could just ignore it, unless of course
you actually need to use IPv6 ...

            regards, tom lane