Re: Re: running pgaccess on localhost

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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