Re: postgres connection problem via python pg DBI

Dan Joo wrote:
> db=pg.connect('aqdev','localhost',5432,None,None,'postgres',None)
>
> From the commandline the connection works great, but from a
> cgi-script it barfs with the following message:
>
> *InternalError*: could not create socket: Permission denied

My (obvious, granted) guess is that you're running it from the command
line as your own user, but the web server is running under another user
who doesn't have the proper permissions (or ident response) to access
the database.

Colin