<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Using a Windows computer, editing the file:<p
class="MsoNormal">C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts<pclass="MsoNormal">the localhost entry was remapped to the
machinename by adding the following line:<p class="MsoNormal">127.0.0.1 <Computer-Name><p
class="MsoNormal"> <pclass="MsoNormal">After this change, Postgres would not allow access using the address
localhost.<pclass="MsoNormal">Only using the machine name to access the database was possible.<p class="MsoNormal">Is
thisby design?<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">In other words<p class="MsoNormal">psql -h localhost <p
class="MsoNormal">fails,but:<p class="MsoNormal">psql -h <Computer-Name> <p class="MsoNormal">succeeds.<p
class="MsoNormal"> </div>