Hi,
I'm using Centos 4.7 and after upgrading PostgreSQL to version 8.3.7 (from ver. 7.4) via yum I cannot connect to my postgres server from remote hosts. I know that for PostgreSQL servers starting with version 8.0 remote connections can only be set in postgresql.conf allowing them in "listen_addresses" parameter. My settings are following: listen_addresses = 'localhost,XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX' where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is IP address of remote client that I want to be able to use PostgreSQL server. Port is default. When I start server (service postgresql start) I receive status [OK], but in pgstartup.log there is information about some errors (or rather warnings - but that's why remote connections don't work): WARNING: could not create listen socket for "XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Cannot assign requested address HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry. Of course - there is no other instance of PostgreSQL serve nor any other application is using this TCP port. This commands returns empty string: netstat -plunt | grep 5432 pg -A | grep postmaster I must add that everything works fine for my local apps - they can easily connect to the server. I also tried few other non-default ports from range 60000+ with same result. Additionally, previous version (7.4) had no problems for accepting remote connections. Thanks, Grzegorz Bus
