On Tuesday 04 September 2007 10:59:38 Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I had been running postgres with postgresql.conf file
> as little changed as possible from distributed version.
> And lately I became a bit curious as well as confused.
>
> In my configuration file both lines
> #listen_addresses = 'localhost'
> and
> #port = 5432
> are commented out.
>
> What does this mean? Is postgress listening on port
> 5432?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tena Sakai
> tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu
The above values are the defaults, postgres should be listening on port 5432
and only listening on localhost for connections. You can double check by
running these commands in a psql session:
show listen_addresses ;
show port ;
/Kevin