On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:04 AM, James Haworth<j.haworth@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using postgresql 8.3 with postgis 1.3.6 to do a masters project. I
> have been running the database without any problems for a few months now
> and all of a sudden I cannot connect to it. I get the error:
>
> "could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061)
Is the pgsql server up and running? What OS are you on? what does
pg_ctl status say?