Re: localhost redux

"Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net> writes:
> I've been having a problem with the pgstat.c localhost change since 7.4, 
> in that statistics gathering stopped working on my gentoo boxes.  I've 
> not traced it back beyond getaddrinfo called in getaddrinfo_all, and 
> decided the quick fix was to go back and change pgstat to use 127.0.0.1 
> instead of localhost.

> I don't know if the problem is isolated to just me, but I wanted to 
> suggest that we use a parameter for that, which can be configured in the 
> postgresql.conf, with a default value if it's not set, set to 
> localhost.

I think you should first trace down what the problem really is --- is
your system just misconfigured or is there some fundamental issue that
we really ought to answer to?
        regards, tom lane