Re: Help with PostgreSQL Access

On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 20:25, Andrew Tuson wrote:
...
> My query is concerning PostgreSQL Access.  When I open it none of the icons
> work and I assume that I have to use Database/Open to tell it the name of my
> database.  The Host is shown as localhost and the Port is set to 5432.  No
> matter what I enter in the other icons I get the following error message:
>
> Connection to database failed
> could not connect to server: Connection refused
> Is the server running on host localhost and
> accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

Presumably you did not start the postmaster with -i, or else your
settings in $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf do not allow TCP/IP access from
localhost.

The easiest solution is to remove "localhost" from the Host field and
leave that blank.  The connection should then use the Unix socket rather
than TCP/IP.

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