Re: connection refused problem

Sure, and editing the source files to make it work differently will work
too.

But if you want a machine that anyone who knows postgresql can maintain,
it would be a good idea to make your changes in postgresql.conf...

I get ornery about it because as often as this question comes up, there's
someone who says to edit pg_ctl or to just run the postmaster by hand each
time, when the folks who wrote pg_ctl / postgresql.conf went to all the
trouble of making it easy to configure postgres, and editing pg_ctl or
starting postmaster just makes it harder.

Nothing personal...

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Darren Ferguson wrote:

> There is no right way they both work. Also in my mail i did say you could
> edit the conf file adding support i had just forgot the actual syntax and
> offered a lookup of the documentation to find the correct syntax.
>
> Both -i and tcpip_socket = true will achieve the same result. TCP/IP
> connections to the database
>
> Darren Ferguson
>
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
> > HOLD ON guys!  The right way is to edit $PGDATA/postgresql.conf and
> > change the line that says:
> >
> > tcpip_socket = false
> >
> > so that is says:
> >
> > tcpip_socket = true
> >
> > And restart the postmaster with
> >
> > pg_ctl restart
> >
> > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Dan Weston wrote:
> >
> > > If you don't want to modify the pg_ctl script (say you only want network
> > > connections some of the time), you can put the -i on the command line,
> > > preceded by a -o to tell pg_ctl to pass the option through to the
> > > postmaster:
> > >
> > >   pc_ctl -o -i start
> > >
> > > Dan Weston
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Darren Ferguson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Modify the pg_ctl script and it should run the postmaster.
> > > > What you do is add the -i flag there. Alternatively you can add
> > > > to pg_hba.conf file i think it is TCP = yes. I am not sure but you can
> > > > check the documentation about that one but the -i flag on postmaster
> > > > definately works
> > > >
> > > > HTH
> > > >
> > > > Darren Ferguson
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Phil Glatz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I bringing up PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on a Free BSD 4.5 system, installed from
> > > > > ports, using defaults.  I copied the sample versions of pg_hba.conf and
> > > > > postgresql.conf to new files, removing the .sample part.
> > > > >
> > > > > This command works fine:
> > > > > psql -U pgsql database
> > > > >
> > > > > but if I specify a hostname:
> > > > > psql -U pgsql -h localhost cn
> > > > >
> > > > > I get:
> > > > >    psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
> > > > >            Is the postmaster running (with -i) at 'localhost'
> > > > >            and accepting connections on TCP/IP port 5432?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I have local hosts defined in /etc/hosts, and in /tmp I see:
> > > > > srwxrwxrwx   1 pgsql  wheel     0 May 30 10:15 .s.PGSQL.5432=
> > > > > -rw-------   1 pgsql  wheel    28 May 30 10:15 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry for such an obviously dumb question, I didn't see anything in the FAQ
> > > > > other than "add the -i flag to postmaster", but I didn't see how to do
> > > > > that.  The core line in my startup script is:
> > > > >
> > > > >    '[ -d ${PGDATA} ] && exec /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl start -s -w -l ~pgsql/errlog'
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