Re: Connecting to a remote db server

Struckhoff, Kevin wrote:
> I'm trying to use the psql tool:
>
> /home/postgres->psql test
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
>         Is the server running locally and accepting
>         connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>
> the answer of course is No..

Oh, well, you need to specify the hostname or address of the remote server:

psql -h db01 test

Otherwise, it's just trying to connect to localhost, as you've seen.

You  might need to adjust pg_hba.conf on the db01 server to allow
connections from your app01 client host.

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