Re: Upgrade woes

"Greg Kelley" <gkelley@britannicaviation.com> writes:
> Upgraded RH8.0 to 9.0 last saturday. Then pgsql woldn't start - failed using
> the /etc/rc.d/init.d script so I manually entered the command and discovered
> that it had to fix the database due to not shutting down properly(???). Now
> it starts just fine, but I can't connect.

> psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused

This is a kernel-level refusal.  Check your packet filtering setup --- I
bet you have traffic to port 5432 filtered out :-(

            regards, tom lane