Re: pg_connect problem

in your pg_hba.conf must set a line with the follow:

local all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
local all all IP.OF.YOUR.MACHINE YOUR.GATEWAY trust

and in your postgresql.conf must set the port = 5432 without the comment
restart the postgresql and it must work

Regards

Nilson

> I’m a PHP/PostGRE newbie. I’m getting this error:
>
> Warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not
> connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host
> localhost and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? . in
> /export/home/tsc/a/delete-action.phtml on line 156
> Couldn't make a connection!
>
> This is the code I’m trying to run:
> $connection = pg_connect("host=localhost dbname=address user=address
> password=address");
>
> This is my pg_hba.conf
> local all all password
>
> This is the output of “netstat –an | grep 5432”
> unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 27649
> /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432
>
> I’m able to do “psql –u address” and supply and username and password as
> any
> Unix user defined in the system.
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong? Thanks.
>
>