Someone (possibly me) foolishly reduced the response for failing

tglsfdc · tglsfdc · commit b1d3de6b96a5 · 2003-09-12T19:33:59.000Z
to create a TCP/IP socket from FATAL to LOG.  This was unwise;
historically we have expected socket conflicts to abort postmaster
startup.  Conflicts on port numbers with another postmaster can only
be detected reliably at the TCP socket level.
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.344 2003/09/11 18:30:39 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.345 2003/09/12 19:33:59 tgl Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ PostmasterMain(int argc, char *argv[])
 										  UnixSocketDir,
 										  ListenSocket, MAXLISTEN);
 				if (status != STATUS_OK)
-					ereport(LOG,
+					ereport(FATAL,
 					 (errmsg("could not create listen socket for \"%s\"",
 							 curhost)));
 				if (endptr)
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ PostmasterMain(int argc, char *argv[])
 									  UnixSocketDir,
 									  ListenSocket, MAXLISTEN);
 			if (status != STATUS_OK)
-				ereport(LOG,
+				ereport(FATAL,
 					  (errmsg("could not create TCP/IP listen socket")));
 		}
 

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@`
`37`	`37`	`*`
`38`	`38`	`*`
`39`	`39`	`* IDENTIFICATION`
`40`		`- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.344 2003/09/11 18:30:39 momjian Exp $`
	`40`	`+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.345 2003/09/12 19:33:59 tgl Exp $`
`41`	`41`	`*`
`42`	`42`	`* NOTES`
`43`	`43`	`*`
`@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ PostmasterMain(int argc, char *argv[])`
`753`	`753`	`UnixSocketDir,`
`754`	`754`	`ListenSocket, MAXLISTEN);`
`755`	`755`	`if (status != STATUS_OK)`
`756`		`- ereport(LOG,`
	`756`	`+ ereport(FATAL,`
`757`	`757`	`(errmsg("could not create listen socket for \"%s\"",`
`758`	`758`	`curhost)));`
`759`	`759`	`if (endptr)`
`@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ PostmasterMain(int argc, char *argv[])`
`772`	`772`	`UnixSocketDir,`
`773`	`773`	`ListenSocket, MAXLISTEN);`
`774`	`774`	`if (status != STATUS_OK)`
`775`		`- ereport(LOG,`
	`775`	`+ ereport(FATAL,`
`776`	`776`	`(errmsg("could not create TCP/IP listen socket")));`
`777`	`777`	`}`
`778`	`778`