Connecting to PostgreSQL DB?

[Peter Reid]

Alex & Pierre

Thank you both for guiding the blind!  You were both correct, I 
needed to enable the tcpip_socket option.  However, despite several 
"pg_ctl reload" attempts, the running copy of PostgreSQL wouldn't 
listen on port 5432.  In the end I rebooted my iMac (acting as a db 
server) and restarted a new session of PostgreSQL.  this sorted it!

I can now connect using Rev 2.1 as well as using the admin tools I mentioned.

Thanks again.

Best regards

Peter

>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


>Have an eye on your "../pgsql/data/postgresql.conf" file and do test in
>the first lines of it by activing the TCP/IP connection and so :
>
>
>>  #       Connection Parameters
>>  #
>>  #tcpip_socket = false
>>  tcpip_socket = true
>>
>>  #ssl = false
>>
>>  #max_connections = 32
>>  #superuser_reserved_connections = 2
>>
>>  #port = 5432
>>  port = 5432
>
>Bests Regards, Pierre
>--
>Bien cordialement, Pierre Sahores
>
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