Some questions about postgres backend connections

Hello out there!

After installing PostgreSQL 7.1.2 (debian Linux 2.2.19) I've a whole bunch of
questions about connection configuration ;-)

1. Does Postgres for its tcp-socket make use of the hosts.access mechanism? If
yes, whats the correct service name in hosts.allow|deny? I tried some, but it
seems it doesn't work...

2. Can I use PAM-authentication for restricting the access to databases,
tables etc. Or is it necessary to manually put all unix-users in the pg_user
table also (with additional passwords and therefore a lot of administration
overhead ;-)

3. Is there a possible problem connecting to the postgres unix domain socket
with PHP4 (4.0.3pl1 on apache 1.3.9)?

If (in the php-file) I do a

  $link = pg_connect("dbname=template1");

I get (in syslog)

  apache: PHP Warning:  Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server:
  connectDB() -- connect() failed: Connection refused Is the postmaster
running at
  'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix socket '5432'?  in
  /var/www/intern/phpPgAdmin/test.php on line 6

Of course, the postmaster is running and psql works fine. The socket itself
seems alright:

  srwxrwxrwx    1 pgr      pgr             0 Jun 10 18:22 tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432
  -rw-------    1 pgr      pgr            21 Jun 10 18:22
tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock

If I do the same thing with the tcp-socket

  $link = pg_connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=template1");

everything is ok...

Any suggestions?


Thanks a lot,
  Claus Herwig