<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-size: 16px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: georgia, serif;"><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><font face="georgia, serif" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oddly enough I did not receive </span><span style="font-size: small;">Ricardo Martin Gomez</span></font><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;">'s response directly -- just received it with Ron's response.</span><br><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:RO1P15201MB2267F8DCC9F82D673BA8818CA3D50(at)RO1P15201MB2267(dot)LAMP152(dot)PROD(dot)OUTLOOK(dot)COM" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><zzzmeta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" style=""><zzzmeta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" style=""><div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="georgia, serif">Regarding:</font><br><br><font face="sans-serif">> You must be check postgres.conf file in order to see the particular port.</font><br><font face="sans-serif">> </font><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sometimes postgres is running but in another port 5433, 5434, etc.</span></div></zzzmeta></zzzmeta></blockquote><font face="georgia, serif" size="2" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Where do I find that postgres. conf file; where and how do I look? (I have tried plenty of searching and trying what's suggested, to no avail.)<br><br>Not sure what to do with this, so I'll keep it in mind for future reference:<br><br></font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>> By default???</span><font face="georgia, serif" size="2" style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><br></font><div style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><font size="2"><br></font><blockquote style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; color: black;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
<br>Sent: Nov 24, 2018 1:10 PM
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By default???<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/24/2018 06:16 AM, Ricardo Martin
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You must be check postgres.conf file in order to see the
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Sometimes postgres is running but in another port 5433, 5434,
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 24, 2018 3:25:02 AM<br>
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<div>On 11/23/2018 08:31 PM, Anne Marie Harm wrote:<br>
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Unfortunately I'm unable to operate pgAdmin/PostgreSQL;
first of all I can only install version 9.5 (tried
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How come. (Are you running a really old distro version?)<br>
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launch pgAdmin in order to try to use PostgreSGL 9.5, h</span></font>ere
is the full text of the error message I receive (also,
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<font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:16px">could
not connect to server: Connection refused
(0x0000274D/10061) Is the server running on host
"localhost" (::1) and accepting TCP/IP connections on
port 5432? could not connect to server: Connection
refused (0x0000274D/10061) Is the server running on
host "localhost" (127.0.0.1) and accepting TCP/IP
connections on port 5432?</span></font></div>
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Well, <b>is</b> Postgres running? You installed Pg but did you
start it? These two commands will tell you:<br>
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pg_ctl status # when logged in as user postgres<br>
sudo netstat -an | grep 5432<br>
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(312) 563-9397
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/annemarieharm/</pre></div><br><br></div><br><div id="elnk_signature_1543087914914" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black;"><pre>----------------------------
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