From: | "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | Joel Burton <jburton(at)scw(dot)org> |
Cc: | Mike Goetz <nospam(at)home(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Re: running pgaccess on localhost |
Date: | 2001-04-27 21:22:00 |
Message-ID: | 200104272122.f3RLM0iW026432@linda.lfix.co.uk |
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Joel Burton wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Mike Goetz wrote:
>> I'm trying to run pgaccess on a database I've created, and I get the
>> following error:
>>
>> PostgreSQL error message: Connection to database failed
>> PQconnectPoll() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
>> Is the postmaster running (with -i) at 'localhost' and accepting
>> connections on TCP/IP port '5432'?
>The fact that you're running pgaccess from a term window doesn't mean that
>pgaccess connects to PG w/a local socket.
>
>Someone may know how to configure pgaccess to use a local socket. If not,
>use the -i switch, and edit $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf to block access from other
>machines. (This is the default setting.)
When pgaccess's connection dialog appears, remove any entry from the
host field. If this is empty, pgaccess will connect through the Unix socket;
if it has anything at all in it, it will use TCP/IP.
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