Connecting to PostgreSQL DB?

[Alex Rice]

On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 06:50  PM, Peter Reid wrote:

>
> Obviously I'm doing something stupid and probably blindingly obvious, 
> it's just that I can't see what it is!! Any ideas please?

Make sure that pgsql is indeed running on port 5432. I could be wrong, 
but I think the default installation of pgsql runs with tcp/ip socket 
off, and only running a local unix domain socket. Opening the daemon on 
5432 requires explicit configuration in postgresql.conf. see also 
pg_hba.conf.

You can try "telnet localhost 5432" to see if there is anything 
listening on that port and rule out whether it's a firewall issue or 
just nothing is listening on 5432.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com